Re: FAQ, German Umlauts (patch)

[Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de>]

Amol Deshpande wrote:
> Peter,
> Should this also be applicable to 3.0.x ? Also, would printing eight-bit
> characters  be affected by inittyptab ? 
> thanks,

Here's a patch for zsh 3.0.x.  The internal zsh table (set up in
ininittyptab()) isn't used in this case; isprint() is used in order to
give the system a chance of deciding what's printable.

*** Doc/zshoptions.man.p8	Mon Oct 21 21:01:15 1996
--- Doc/zshoptions.man	Mon Jun 30 09:36:36 1997
***************
*** 416,421 ****
--- 416,426 ----
  .BR trap " and"
  .BR unset .
  .TP
+ \fBPRINT_EIGHT_BIT\fP
+ Print eight bit characters literally in completion lists, etc.
+ This option is not necessary if your system correctly returns the
+ printability of eight bit characters (see ctype(3)).
+ .TP
  \fBPRINT_EXIT_VALUE\fP (\-\fB1\fP)
  Print the exit value of programs with non-zero exit status.
  .TP
*** Src/globals.h.p8	Tue Jun  3 07:11:26 1997
--- Src/globals.h	Mon Jun 30 10:04:01 1997
***************
*** 762,767 ****
--- 762,768 ----
      {"overstrike", 		0,    0,    0},
      {"pathdirs", 		'Q',  0,    0},
      {"posixbuiltins",		0,    0,    OPT_EMULATE|OPT_BOURNE},
+     {"printeightbit", 		0,    0,    0},
      {"printexitvalue", 		'1',  0,    0},
      {"privileged", 		'p',  'p',  OPT_SPECIAL},
      {"promptcr", 		x'V', 0,    OPT_ALL},
*** Src/utils.c.p8	Tue Jun  3 07:11:28 1997
--- Src/utils.c	Mon Jun 30 09:39:48 1997
***************
*** 174,179 ****
--- 174,181 ----
      if (isprint(c))
  	goto done;
      if (c & 0x80) {
+ 	if (isset(PRINTEIGHTBIT))
+ 	    goto done;
  	*s++ = '\\';
  	*s++ = 'M';
  	*s++ = '-';
*** Src/zsh.h.p8	Tue Jun  3 07:11:28 1997
--- Src/zsh.h	Mon Jun 30 09:37:01 1997
***************
*** 1124,1129 ****
--- 1124,1130 ----
      OVERSTRIKE,
      PATHDIRS,
      POSIXBUILTINS,
+     PRINTEIGHTBIT,
      PRINTEXITVALUE,
      PRIVILEGED,
      PROMPTCR,

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