Re: Locale related problem with zshrc parsing

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Ismail Dönmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr> wrote:
> zsh seems to be affected by infamous Turkish locale (LC_ALL=tr_TR.UTF-8)
> problem. In Turkish lowercase of "I" is not i but its ı (i-dotless). And
> this seems to affect zsh too :
> 
> [~]> zsh --version
> zsh 4.3.2-dev-1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
> 
> [~]> setopt SHARE_HISTORY
> setopt: no such option: SHARE_HISTORY

Thanks, I've fixed this occurrence but you may see similar things
occurring from other places in the code.

Index: Src/options.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Src/options.c,v
retrieving revision 1.34
diff -u -r1.34 options.c
--- Src/options.c	6 Feb 2007 21:47:55 -0000	1.34
+++ Src/options.c	15 Mar 2007 14:32:42 -0000
@@ -603,7 +603,14 @@
 	if (*t == '_')
 	    chuck(t);
 	else {
-	    *t = tulower(*t);
+	    /*
+	     * Some locales (in particular tr_TR.UTF-8) may
+	     * have non-standard mappings of ASCII characters,
+	     * so be careful.  Option names must be ASCII so
+	     * we don't need to be too clever.
+	     */
+	    if (*t >= 'A' && *t <= 'Z')
+		*t = (*t - 'A') + 'a';
 	    t++;
 	}
 


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