From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Question: completion listing
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 11:41:11 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199902051041.LAA11847@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Peter Stephenson's message of Fri, 05 Feb 1999 11:11:53 +0100
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Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> >
> > If you have a file `Maße', this appears in a completion list as
> > `Ma\M-_e' since metafied characters are treated specially.
> >
> > I vaguely remember a discussion about this but I don't remember why it
> > was decided to print them in this way (and I mean metafied characters
> > that are printable). Or was this just an oversight? Giving people
> > using such filenames what they deserve?
>
> It was neither, really: it's to do with locales. If your locale says
> that scharfes S is a letter, then it appears as a letter in the
> listing; if not, not. Arguably there could be some internal way of
> by-passing it. I produced an FAQ entry on the subject (q.v.), but
> there was some suggestion at the time this wasn't really adequate.
Oops, RTM, sorry!
> (Surprise: the AIX system here doesn't have locales installed.)
Neither has my DU4.0d...
> I've appended it as it now stands for convenience. Maybe a simple
> option (EIGHT_BIT_CHARS or whatever) to cover standard cases like
> ISO-8859-* would be a better idea?
Yes, I think this would be helpful. Maybe I'll find some time
somewhere...
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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