Re: Multibyte Input On OS X Again...

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

On 2007-04-05 08:14:25 -0500, Jordan Breeding wrote:
>  I have emailed the list before about the problems I have with multibyte 
>  input using zsh on OS X.  I still can't get it to work, I think that it has 
>  to do with composited versus non-composited characters possibly, when I have 
>  to composite a character (hit one key then another) to get a specific 
>  character but that character is a single character on the command line 
>  things go badly.  In bash with readline everything works fine.  I made a 
>  movie of the problem in zsh and then showing bash doing just fine.  

But note that there are other cases where zsh does fine while bash
doesn't behave correctly, e.g.

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=397086

zsh (after an "unsetopt PROMPT_CR") does fine. This case concerns the
output of a combining character, but I think that the input and output
are related. So, please, don't add a bug here when fixing the problem. :)

Another problem specific to bash:

vinc17@prunille:~/blah$ mkdir é
vinc17@prunille:~/blah$ echo [TAB]

gives:

vinc17@prunille:~/blah$ echo é/

If you type the right arrow several times, the cursor moves backward
and forward alternatively.

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