On Apr 05, 2007, at 19:03, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2007-04-05 08:14:25 -0500, Jordan Breeding wrote:
>> I have emailed the list before about the problems I have with  
>> multibyte
>> input using zsh on OS X.  I still can't get it to work, I think  
>> that it has
>> to do with composited versus non-composited characters possibly,  
>> when I have
>> to composite a character (hit one key then another) to get a specific
>> character but that character is a single character on the command  
>> line
>> things go badly.  In bash with readline everything works fine.  I  
>> made a
>> movie of the problem in zsh and then showing bash doing just fine.
>
> But note that there are other cases where zsh does fine while bash
> doesn't behave correctly, e.g.
>
>  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=397086
>
> zsh (after an "unsetopt PROMPT_CR") does fine. This case concerns the
> output of a combining character, but I think that the input and output
> are related. So, please, don't add a bug here when fixing the  
> problem. :)
>
> Another problem specific to bash:
>
> vinc17@prunille:~/blah$ mkdir é
> vinc17@prunille:~/blah$ echo [TAB]
>
> gives:
>
> vinc17@prunille:~/blah$ echo é/
>
> If you type the right arrow several times, the cursor moves backward
> and forward alternatively.
>
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Hmm, at least with Bash 3.2 on OS X I don't seem to have the problems  
that you have with bash.  Anyway, I just hope that eventually  
multibyte input/output in zsh will improve, because other than  
multibyte support that works the way I would like it to zsh has just  
about everything I could possibly ask for.

Jordan