On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Roland Mainz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Attached (as "builtin_read.sh.gz") is a _prototype_ test module for
> the "read" builtin. While writing the tests I found an issue with $
> read -N5 # when the input consists of five multibyte characters in the
> zh_CN.UTF-8 locale.
[snip]

Grumpf... I should sometimes proofread the emails I write... ;-/
... the issue is that $ read -N5 x # returns after reading five ascii
characters but does not return after reading five multibyte
characters. This seems to happen only if the input is a tty (e.g. from
"pty" ) ...

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Bye,
Roland

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