From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: utf-8
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 03:32:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3SNX1PAS_0dPrwv8vRArpmYc_0zVYhwCYJjD27jLD_cVg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54938D03.8040303@eastlink.ca>
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> On 12/18/2014 06:04 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>>
>> This has gone way off topic for the zsh-users list. I don't recall if
>> the ietf-charsets list is still active, but that might be a better place
>> to go looking if it is.
>>
> Bart,
>
> Of topic? I'm wondering how one enters the newline character in zsh when one
> is using a different locale/alphabet. I've only ever used English, and I'd
> expect that in, say, Cyrillic there would be some char that's a dead ringer
> for 'n' (as in '\n'), but in *principal* a Cyrillic 'n' might not be the
> same utf-8 code as 'our' 'n', so I'm wondering what zsh does about that.
> Spanish would have at least two 'candidates' for 'n'. What does zsh do once
> we are outside of good old ASCII?
Escape sequences like \n and \t are always exactly those characters.
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-19 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-17 18:05 utf-8 Ray Andrews
2014-12-17 20:31 ` utf-8 ZyX
2014-12-18 0:39 ` utf-8 Ray Andrews
2014-12-18 6:48 ` utf-8 Павлов Николай Александрович
2014-12-18 9:25 ` utf-8 Mikael Magnusson
2014-12-18 9:25 ` utf-8 Peter Stephenson
2014-12-18 17:36 ` utf-8 Ray Andrews
2014-12-18 17:48 ` utf-8 Peter Stephenson
2014-12-18 18:14 ` utf-8 Ray Andrews
2014-12-18 18:22 ` utf-8 ZyX
2014-12-18 18:05 ` utf-8 ZyX
2014-12-18 18:41 ` utf-8 Ray Andrews
2014-12-18 18:52 ` utf-8 ZyX
2014-12-18 20:04 ` utf-8 Ray Andrews
2014-12-18 20:12 ` utf-8 Peter Stephenson
2014-12-18 20:52 ` utf-8 ZyX
2014-12-18 21:15 ` utf-8 Ray Andrews
2014-12-18 21:38 ` utf-8 ZyX
2014-12-18 23:55 ` utf-8 Ray Andrews
2014-12-19 2:04 ` utf-8 Bart Schaefer
2014-12-19 2:27 ` utf-8 Ray Andrews
2014-12-19 2:32 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2014-12-19 2:45 ` utf-8 Bart Schaefer
2014-12-19 6:34 ` utf-8 Ray Andrews
2014-12-19 7:02 ` utf-8 Bart Schaefer
2014-12-19 17:04 ` utf-8 Ray Andrews
2014-12-19 22:06 ` utf-8 ZyX
2014-12-19 7:29 ` utf-8 Павлов Николай Александрович
2014-12-19 3:50 ` utf-8 Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-19 5:24 ` utf-8 Павлов Николай Александрович
2014-12-19 5:18 ` utf-8 Павлов Николай Александрович
[not found] <BC9BC140-F1A5-11D5-BA73-000393164560@mas.ecp.fr>
2001-12-18 16:51 ` UTF-8 Oliver Kiddle
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