diff --git a/contrib/vis/vis.1 b/contrib/vis/vis.1
--- a/contrib/vis/vis.1
+++ b/contrib/vis/vis.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: vis.1,v 1.19 2013/03/14 19:17:23 njoly Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: vis.1,v 1.25 2021/02/20 09:31:51 nia Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)vis.1	8.4 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
 .\"
-.Dd February 19, 2013
+.Dd February 18, 2021
 .Dt VIS 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 .Nd display non-printable characters in a visual format
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Nm
-.Op Fl bcfhlmnostw
+.Op Fl bcfhlMmNnoSstw
 .Op Fl e Ar extra
 .Op Fl F Ar foldwidth
 .Op Ar file ...
@@ -99,9 +99,22 @@
 Mark newlines with the visible sequence
 .Ql \e$ ,
 followed by the newline.
+.It Fl M
+Encode all shell meta characters (implies
+.Fl S ,
+.Fl w ,
+.Fl g )
+.Pq Dv VIS_META
 .It Fl m
 Encode using the MIME Quoted-Printable encoding from RFC 2045.
 .Pq Dv VIS_MIMESTYLE
+.It Fl N
+Turn on the
+.Dv VIS_NOLOCALE
+flag which encodes using the
+.Dq C
+locale, removing any encoding dependencies caused by the current
+locale settings specified in the environment.
 .It Fl n
 Turns off any encoding, except for the fact that backslashes are
 still doubled and hidden newline sequences inserted if
@@ -123,6 +136,9 @@
 Request a format which displays non-printable characters as
 an octal number, \eddd.
 .Pq Dv VIS_OCTAL
+.It Fl S
+Encode shell meta-characters that are non-white space or glob.
+.Pq Dv VIS_SHELL
 .It Fl s
 Only characters considered unsafe to send to a terminal are encoded.
 This flag allows backspace, bell, and carriage return in addition
@@ -183,7 +199,7 @@
 .Nm
 command appears in
 .Bx 4.4 .
-Myltibyte character support was added in
+Multibyte character support was added in
 .Nx 7.0
 and
 .Fx 9.2 .
diff --git a/contrib/vis/vis.c b/contrib/vis/vis.c
--- a/contrib/vis/vis.c
+++ b/contrib/vis/vis.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$NetBSD: vis.c,v 1.22 2013/02/20 17:04:45 christos Exp $	*/
+/*	$NetBSD: vis.c,v 1.25 2015/05/24 19:42:39 christos Exp $	*/
 
 /*-
  * Copyright (c) 1989, 1993
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 #if 0
 static char sccsid[] = "@(#)vis.c	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93";
 #endif
-__RCSID("$NetBSD: vis.c,v 1.22 2013/02/20 17:04:45 christos Exp $");
+__RCSID("$NetBSD: vis.c,v 1.25 2015/05/24 19:42:39 christos Exp $");
 #endif /* not lint */
 
 #include <stdio.h>
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
 	int ch;
 	int rval;
 
-	while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "bcde:F:fhlmnostw")) != -1)
+	while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "bcde:F:fhlMmNnoSstw")) != -1)
 		switch((char)ch) {
 		case 'b':
 			eflags |= VIS_NOSLASH;
@@ -102,17 +102,26 @@
 		case 'l':
 			markeol++;	/* mark end of line with \$ */
 			break;
+		case 'M':
+			eflags |= VIS_META;
+			break;
 		case 'm':
 			eflags |= VIS_MIMESTYLE;
 			if (foldwidth == 80)
 				foldwidth = 76;
 			break;
+		case 'N':
+			eflags |= VIS_NOLOCALE;
+			break;
 		case 'n':
 			none++;
 			break;
 		case 'o':
 			eflags |= VIS_OCTAL;
 			break;
+		case 'S':
+			eflags |= VIS_SHELL;
+			break;
 		case 's':
 			eflags |= VIS_SAFE;
 			break;
@@ -125,7 +134,7 @@
 		case '?':
 		default:
 			(void)fprintf(stderr, 
-			    "Usage: %s [-bcfhlmnostw] [-e extra]" 
+			    "Usage: %s [-bcfhlMmNnoSstw] [-e extra]" 
 			    " [-F foldwidth] [file ...]\n", getprogname());
 			return 1;
 		}