On 28 февраля 2009 22:19:13 Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Feb 28, 10:07pm, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > } > } Hmm ... quoting original mail: > } > } >This is on freebsd 6.4. > } >Unicode ist not used, and I currently do not intend to use it. > > Oops, sorry about that. Don't know how I missed it. > > } Wolfgang, what happens if you explicitly disable multibyte support > (-- } disable-multibyte) during build? > > BTW I tried "unsetopt multibyte" when fiddling with this on my Mac, > and "unknown" characters were still displayed as <00c3>. (Which is > better than in 4.3.4, where they are both displayed and processed as > %C3.) This is not keyed on runtime option but on build time (under #ifdef MULTIBYTE_SUPPORT). But see other mail.