Randy McMurchy wrote:
> I would have updated the book *long* ago, except that
> I can't get anyone to confirm that the multibyte issue is, or is not
> an issue any longer.
>   

It is not an issue, and in fact it wasn't an issue - sorry for falsely 
raising it. The following basic tests of multibyte functionality pass in 
the ru_RU.UTF-8 locale with both old and new tcsh:

1) Editing. Type: echo абвг (don't press Enter). Then try to remove some 
Russian characters with the help of arrows and the Backspace key (FIXME: 
make the Delete key usable). Verify that, when you press Enter, the 
characters echoed are the same as those you didn't delete. Result: 
Russian (and even Japanese) characters can be deleted and reinserted as 
easy as English ones.

2) String length calculation (the results below are correct):

 > set a=学校
 > echo $%a
2
 > set a=абвг
 > echo $%a
4

So please update the tcsh version and remove the multibyte warning.

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Alexander E. Patrakov
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