From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11065 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2006 18:07:56 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 8 Jan 2006 18:07:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 90125 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2006 18:07:50 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 8 Jan 2006 18:07:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 9545 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2006 18:07:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 22145 Received: (qmail 9535 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2006 18:07:48 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 8 Jan 2006 18:07:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 89853 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2006 18:07:48 -0000 Received: from mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (81.103.221.48) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 8 Jan 2006 18:07:46 -0000 Received: from aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060108180746.JTLX17804.mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 18:07:46 +0000 Received: from pwslaptop.csr.com ([81.105.238.64]) by aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with SMTP id <20060108180746.VGBD20369.aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@pwslaptop.csr.com>; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 18:07:46 +0000 Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 18:07:42 +0000 From: Peter Stephenson To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk, sparre@nbi.dk, 346119-forwarded@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#346119: zsh: Non-ASCII letters are not accepted in variable names Message-Id: <20060108180742.4c85c70c.p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: <20060107164325.GA32204@scowler.net> References: <20060105191438.27899.29729.reportbug@hugin.crs4.it> <20060107144929.GA28841@scowler.net> <20060107164325.GA32204@scowler.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:43:25 -0500 Clint Adams 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 Web page still at http://www.pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk/