From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 11:41:11 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199902051041.LAA11847@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: Peter Stephenson's message of Fri, 05 Feb 1999 11:11:53 +0100 Subject: Re: Question: completion listing X-Mailing-List: 5275 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 -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de