* Michael McConville <mm...@mykolab.com> [24.12.2015. @16:19:03 -0500]:
> Christian Heckendorf wrote:
> > A couple of somewhat recent changes in NetBSD's libedit permit
> > el_gets(3) to accept multibyte characters if the locale supports
> > it.
> >
> > A notable user of this function is sftp(1) which will allow users to
> > input multibyte characters, in filenames for example, once the diff
> > is applied.
>
> I remember someone recently mentioning that libedit is due for an
> update. Maybe we should try to include this in a full sync.
>
Assuming someone isn't already working on it, I volunteer.
> > Index: eln.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libedit/eln.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.4
> > diff -u -p -r1.4 eln.c
> > --- eln.c 20 May 2014 11:59:03 -0000 1.4
> > +++ eln.c 24 Dec 2015 19:34:09 -0000
> > @@ -74,9 +74,18 @@ el_gets(EditLine *el, int *nread)
> > {
> > const wchar_t *tmp;
> >
> > - el->el_flags |= IGNORE_EXTCHARS;
> > + if (!(el->el_flags & CHARSET_IS_UTF8))
> > + el->el_flags |= IGNORE_EXTCHARS;
> > tmp = el_wgets(el, nread);
> > - el->el_flags &= ~IGNORE_EXTCHARS;
> > + if (tmp != NULL) {
> > + size_t nwread = 0;
> > + int i;
> > + for (i = 0; i < *nread; i++)
> > + nwread += ct_enc_width(tmp[i]);
> > + *nread = (int)nwread;
> > + }
> > + if (!(el->el_flags & CHARSET_IS_UTF8))
> > + el->el_flags &= ~IGNORE_EXTCHARS;
> > return ct_encode_string(tmp, &el->el_lgcyconv);
> > }
> >
> >
>
