Re: Bug#952970: mksh cannot handle non-BMP characters in \Uxxxxxxxx

[Thorsten Glaser]

severity 952970 wishlist
tags 952970 upstream
forwarded 952970 miros-mkshmirbsd.org
close 952970
thanks

>This isn’t a packaging bug, so I’ll probably close this, but we can
>discuss this upstream.

Closing as announced, but I’ve added it to the plans:
http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm#plans

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Re: Bug#952970: mksh cannot handle non-BMP characters in \Uxxxxxxxx

[Thorsten Glaser]

Mingye Wang dixit:

>Mksh is unable to handle Unicode characters that are not in the BMP

(It’s “mksh”, lowercase ‘m’.)

Only short because I’m in a meeting: yes, and this is deliberate at
the moment, because mksh is the shell of MirBSD which uses 16-bit
Unicode.

I noticed the interactive problem, and will consider various changes,
but nothing in the short term.

This isn’t a packaging bug, so I’ll probably close this, but we can
discuss this upstream.

\U isn’t implemented at all anyway, just \u.

bye,
//mirabilos (mksh upstream AND Debian maintainer)
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