Re: Bug#346119: zsh: Non-ASCII letters are not accepted in variable names

Re: Bug#346119: zsh: Non-ASCII letters are not accepted in variable names

[Clint Adams]

> >>It seems that Zsh has stopped accepting non-ASCII letters 
> >>in variable names:
> >>
> >>% nedre=-10
> >>% øvre=+10
> >>zsh: command not found: øvre=+10
> >>%
> >>
> >>Locale: LANG=fo_FO.ISO8859-1, LC_CTYPE=fo_FO.ISO8859-1 
> >>(charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> >
> >Yes.  Do you really need to do this?
> 
> Yes.

(The variable name is supposed to be øvre)

Re: Bug#346119: zsh: Non-ASCII letters are not accepted in variable names

[Peter Stephenson]

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:43:25 -0500
Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> wrote:
> > >>It seems that Zsh has stopped accepting non-ASCII letters 
> > >>in variable names:

Yes, it's too dangerous now we're starting to support multibyte
characters properly until we decide whether the character is a letter or
punctuation or whatever.  Eventually the test for valid identifiers will
be based on some locale-specific examination of multibyte characters,
but that hasn't been done yet.  Locale-specific definitions of
identifiers frighten me a bit, so I think they're best avoided, but
that'll be the best we can do.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
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