Bruno Haible wrote on 2002-05-02 12:23 UTC: > There is also an alpha release of a readline version that attempts to > handle single-width, double-width and zero-width characters in all > multibyte locales. But it's alpha (read: it doesn't work for me yet).
Yes, it seems the train is rolling now for UTF-8 support in bash/readline as well, which is excellent news. ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/hidden/bash-2.05b-alpha1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/hidden/readline-4.3-alpha1.tar.gz Anyone interested in joining the bash-testers list to help iron out any problems with UTF-8 support in bash/readline should contact Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/readline/rltop.html Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
