Re: readline (was: Switching to UTF-8)

[Bruno Haible]

Markus Kuhn writes:

 There is also bash/readline

SuSE 8.0 ships with a bash/readline that works fine with (at least)
width 1 characters in an UTF-8 locale.

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).

Bruno
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Re: readline (was: Switching to UTF-8)

[Markus Kuhn]

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

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