Markus Kuhn wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Christoph Singer wrote:
>
>>[LANG=de_DE.UTF-8]
>>In xterm and the KDE Konsole, I still have some problems with the
>>Backspace and arrow keys. When trying to delete a character or moving
>>backwards and forwards in a string on the command line with the arrow
>>keys, obviously only one byte is deleted or moved and not the whole
>>character (if it is a non-ascii character). This is very confusing and
>>often produces errors when working on the command line - how this can be
>>fixed?
>>
>
> The problem is that bash and readline still don't support UTF-8 locales.
This means that it is still necessary to patch the bash... I hoped that
this patch is already applied in recent distributions such as SuSE 7.2
that already provide UTF-8 locales, but obviously it isn't.
For me, I installed the patched RedHat bash rpm by Daniel Resare
mentioned at http://noa.tm/utf-8/ . It installed without problems in
my SuSE 7.2 system, and now the command line editing works fine for me
even for non-ascii characters.
I wrote an e-mail message to SuSE asking them to include a patched
utf8-enabled bash into their next release. I think it would be a great
step towards making utf-8 the default text encoding in Linux if the main
distributors would make their systems utf-8 safe by default.
BTW, does anyone know if there is already any linux distribution that
comes fully utf8-enabled by default?
Christoph
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