On Wed Oct 4 08:49:37 2000 +0100 Markus Kuhn wrote:
> Ričardas Čepas wrote on 2000-10-03 17:34 UTC:
> > I have searched your FAQ but found nothing about UTF-8 capable shells.
> > In case there is nothing better here is the link for bash v2 patch.
> > It works for me.
> > http://x-lt.richard.eu.org/me/rch/ll.html#bash
>
> Interesting question. I haven't looked into shells and UTF-8 yet. So far
> I assumed that bash uses readline as its editor and Ulrich Drepper
> claimed quite some time ago in an email to me that GNU readline now also
> works in UTF-8 locales, so my hope was that this solved the most urgent
> aspect of bash UTF-8 support. Will need some practical testing.
Is it v4.1? I assume linux & glibc2.2 will be a requirement for that?
>
> Are there any other aspects of bash than the editor that need to be
> extended for UTF-8? Backslash escape sequences for Unicode characters in
> string literals, regular expressions and filename globbing, string
> manipulation functions, etc.?
>
Globbing should use '?' for one character. vi mode 'f' and 'F' search
should also use one character not byte. Well there are plenty of things
like that.
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