* UTF-8 and 8-bit settings
@ 2006-03-15 19:19 Daniel Qarras
2006-03-15 19:48 ` Peter Stephenson
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From: Daniel Qarras @ 2006-03-15 19:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Hi,
I was about to test zsh-4.3.2 to see how UTF-8 support is working but I
noticed the following lines in my ~/.zshrc. Any ideas are they ok when
trying to use UTF-8?
# Enable ISO-8859-1 support
setopt PRINT_EIGHT_BIT
stty cs8
If there are not causing any harm I'll surely leave them as is but if
you know any reason to change or disable them with UTF-8 please let me
know.
Thanks.
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* Re: UTF-8 and 8-bit settings
2006-03-15 19:19 UTF-8 and 8-bit settings Daniel Qarras
@ 2006-03-15 19:48 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-03-15 21:20 ` Daniel Qarras
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From: Peter Stephenson @ 2006-03-15 19:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Daniel Qarras wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was about to test zsh-4.3.2 to see how UTF-8 support is working but I
> noticed the following lines in my ~/.zshrc. Any ideas are they ok when
> trying to use UTF-8?
>
> # Enable ISO-8859-1 support
> setopt PRINT_EIGHT_BIT
> stty cs8
cs8 is good: that means the terminal will pass each byte in full, which
you will need. (This is at the low-level terminal interface which
doesn't know about multibyte characters.)
The PRINT_EIGHT_BIT option is really a fallback. The shell should
work out based on the correct UTF-8 rules whether a character is
printable or not without PRINT_EIGHT_BIT. If it's turned on, it will
simply shrug its shoulders if it doesn't recognise a character and print
it anyway. So you should have better results if you turn it off.
If you don't there's a bug or a setting wrong somewhere.
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* Re: UTF-8 and 8-bit settings
2006-03-15 19:48 ` Peter Stephenson
@ 2006-03-15 21:20 ` Daniel Qarras
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From: Daniel Qarras @ 2006-03-15 21:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Hi,
> > setopt PRINT_EIGHT_BIT
> > stty cs8
>
> cs8 is good: that means the terminal will pass each byte in full,
> which you will need. (This is at the low-level terminal interface
> which doesn't know about multibyte characters.)
>
> The PRINT_EIGHT_BIT option is really a fallback. ... So you should
> have better results if you turn it off.
ok, I see, thanks for your prompt reply!
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