Ksh line edition wrongly counts multibyte characters in 5.5-current

2014-05-22 Thread M Farkas-Dyck
At ksh prompt, type a multibyte character, and move or backspace over it, for examples: • é, backspace, enter; é is visibly deleted, but ksh says ksh: �: not found • é, home; cursor cuts into prompt Tested in xterm and st with various multibyte characters, including éẃγ♯.

Re: Ksh line edition wrongly counts multibyte characters in 5.5-current

2014-05-22 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 02:46:49PM -0500, M Farkas-Dyck wrote: At ksh prompt, type a multibyte character, and move or backspace over it, for examples: • é, backspace, enter; é is visibly deleted, but ksh says ksh: �: not found • é, home; cursor cuts into prompt Tested in xterm

Re: Ksh line edition wrongly counts multibyte characters in 5.5-current

2014-05-22 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2014-05-22, M Farkas-Dyck strake...@gmail.com wrote: At ksh prompt, type a multibyte character, and move or backspace over it, for examples: ksh's command line editor simply does not support multi-byte characters. -- Christian naddy Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de

Re: Ksh line edition wrongly counts multibyte characters in 5.5-current

2014-05-22 Thread M Farkas-Dyck
Thanks. On 22/05/2014, Stefan Sperling s...@openbsd.org wrote: Try zsh or bash. I use mksh now.