From: "Matthias B." <msbREMOVE-THIS@winterdrache.de>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: NUL must be a first class citizen [was: Some groundwork for Unicode in Zle]
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:59:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050117115914.62d777db@buddha.localdomain.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050115192836.D31B385AF@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk>
This is not directed at anyone in particular. I just want to remind
everyone working on this that ASCII NUL (i.e. the character with ASCII
code 0) is a valid (and very useful) character and must be a first-class
citizen that has to work everywhere you could use the letter "A" (except
of course where restrictions beyond the scope of zsh forbid it, e.g. when
passing file names to system calls).
If 0-terminated wchar_t strings are to be used, then NUL has to be
remapped or escaped, so that it's not encoded as 0, just as it is done in
zsh currently.
The following has to keep working:
x=$(find . -print0)
# Process x in many useful ways
MSB
--
Modesty marks the wise.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-17 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-11 13:52 Some groundwork for Unicode in Zle Peter Stephenson
2005-01-11 13:59 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-01-11 15:11 ` DervishD
2005-01-14 13:10 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-01-15 17:35 ` Clint Adams
2005-01-15 19:28 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-01-17 10:59 ` Matthias B. [this message]
[not found] ` <msbREMOVE-THIS@winterdrache.de>
2005-01-17 11:19 ` NUL must be a first class citizen [was: Some groundwork for Unicode in Zle] Peter Stephenson
2005-01-11 14:51 ` Some groundwork for Unicode in Zle Oliver Kiddle
2005-01-11 14:54 ` Mads Martin Joergensen
2005-01-11 14:56 ` Mads Martin Joergensen
2005-01-11 15:30 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-01-11 16:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-01-11 15:09 ` DervishD
2005-01-11 16:27 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-01-11 16:35 ` Vin Shelton
2005-01-11 16:49 ` DervishD
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