Re: utf-8

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 12/18/2014 09:48 AM, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Yes, correct. Most syntax is pinned down --- either something is a 
> keyword or something like a decimal number from a fixed set, or it's 
> any old string. Identifiers are an exception. There's an option for 
> this. POSIX_IDENTIFIERS <K> <S> When this option is set, only the 
> ASCII characters a to z, A to Z, 0 to 9 and _ may be used in 
> identifiers (names of shell parameters and modules). When the option 
> is unset and multibyte character support is enabled (i.e. it is 
> compiled in and the option MULTIBYTE is set), then additionally any 
> alphanumeric characters in the local character set may be used in 
> identifiers. Note that scripts and functions written with this feature 
> are not portable, and also that both options must be set before the 
> script or function is parsed; setting them during execution is not 
> sufficient as the syntax variable=value has already been parsed as a 
> command rather than an assignment. If multibyte character support is 
> not compiled into the shell this option is ignored; all octets with 
> the top bit set may be used in identifiers. This is non-standard but 
> is the tradi‐ tional zsh behaviour. pws 
Ok thanks.  Now if I can just figger out how to enter one of these 
unicodes in xfce terminal. You'd think their doc might say something 
about it.