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Comments: In-reply-to Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@yahoo.fr>
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Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> ~$ print '<\u0041>'
> <A>
> ~$ printf '%s\n' $'<\u0041>'
> <>
> 
> ~$ LC_ALL=C
> ~$ print $'\u00e9'
> zsh: character not in range
> zsh: segmentation fault  zsh-beta

I was aware of various problems with multibyte in the getkeystring()
function that handles this and I was in the middle of a patch.  I think
that part was mostly complete.  I'll look out the appropriate bit, if I
can still find it, and see what's left.

pws