[Git][NTPsec/ntpsec][master] Updated ntpq/ntpmon documentation regarding unicode issues

[Ian Bruene]

Ian Bruene pushed to branch master at NTPsec / ntpsec


Commits:
f7680cbb by Ian Bruene at 2018-01-02T13:16:46-06:00
Updated ntpq/ntpmon documentation regarding unicode issues

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2 changed files:

- docs/includes/ntpmon-body.txt
- docs/includes/ntpq-body.txt


Changes:

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docs/includes/ntpmon-body.txt
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--- a/docs/includes/ntpmon-body.txt
+++ b/docs/includes/ntpmon-body.txt
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ x:: Cleanly terminate the program.
 When run in a terminal that does not allow UTF-8 ntpmon will downgrade
 its unit display to a non-unicode version. ntpmon has to interact with
 the curses and locale libraries, which prevents it from forcing the use
-of UTF-8 the way ntpq can.
+of UTF-8.
 
 When querying a version of ntpd older than NTPsec 0.9.6, +ntpmon+ will
 appear to hang when monitoring hosts with extremely long MRU lists -


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docs/includes/ntpq-body.txt
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--- a/docs/includes/ntpq-body.txt
+++ b/docs/includes/ntpq-body.txt
@@ -562,6 +562,12 @@ error will however be reported in the system log.
 
 The config command cannot be used to change a server's default restrictions.
 
+Under some circumstances python 2 cannot emit unicode. When true the display
+of units is downgraded to non-unicode alternatives. One place a user is
+likely to encounter this is when diverting output through a pipe. Attempts
+have been made to force the use of UTF-8, all of which break the command
+history feature.
+
 include::mrufail.txt[]
 
 You may be able to retrieve partial data in very high-traffic



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