On 8/10/22 10:21 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> I'm not going to make this much of a change at this point in the release
> process. I was willing to make the change I did because the changed
> behavior is a superset of the previous behavior.
>
> So, assuming we say that the scenario Alan outlined is reasonable (it is),
> it looks like there are four alternatives:
>
> 1. Do nothing; maintain the bash-5.1 behavior and force the change to the
> user.
>
> 2. Leave the new function in place; automatically adjust to locale
> changes.
>
> 3. Push it off to the application: introduce a new readline API that
> applications can call when locale variables change. This is very cheap.
>
> 4. Push it onto readline: instead of checking the locale and making the
> eight-bit variables mirror it on each call, make readline check for
> locale changes (well, LC_CTYPE) and reset the eight-bit variables only
> if the current value doesn't match the value from the last call.
>
> The last option is about as much of a change as I'm willing to make at
> this point.
There is a fifth option:
5. Make the locale-aware behavior dependent on a new readline option, which
would be enabled by default.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
