From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: printf %s in UTF-8 is not POSIX-compliant
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 02:39:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080306013950.GN15833@prunille.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803051041.m25AfmUc031042@news01.csr.com>
On 2008-03-05 10:41:48 +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> In particular, "emulate sh" is the nearest we have to bash emulation
> and bash users are likely to expect multibyte characters to work
> naturally.
I don't know what you mean by "naturally", but zsh currently behaves
differently from bash in sh emulation:
vin:~> sh
sh-3.1$ printf ".%2s.\n" é
.é.
sh-3.1$ exit
vin:~> zsh -f
vin% emulate sh
vin% printf ".%2s.\n" é
. é.
vin%
And the behavior of bash, when run as sh, will not change. So,
I expect zsh to do the same in sh emulation mode.
Note that bash still outputs .é. (POSIX behavior) when run as bash,
but this may change.
> Is it time to introduce a separate "bash" emulation (meaning smart,
> interactive shell not necessarily 100% POSIX compatible) and
> document that "sh" emulation is aimed at POSIX compatibility?
> "emulate bash" already works but is treated the same way as "emulate sh".
Perhaps it should have the same differences as bash with and without
POSIX mode. I don't know what the best behavior is about the startup
files. From the bash man page:
[...] When invoked as sh, bash enters posix mode after the startup
files are read.
When bash is started in posix mode, as with the --posix command line
option, it follows the POSIX standard for startup files. [...]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-06 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-04 1:29 Vincent Lefevre
2008-03-04 1:37 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-03-04 9:40 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-05 0:27 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-03-05 1:34 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-03-06 1:27 ` Vincent Lefevre
2008-03-05 10:41 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-06 1:39 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2008-03-06 9:46 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-06 17:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-03-06 17:45 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-07 2:29 ` Bart Schaefer
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