From: Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>
To: <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: printf %<n>s in UTF-8 is not always POSIX-compliant
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:23:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120215122358.21198f25@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lio470ya.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org>
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:09:17 +0100
Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org> wrote:
> IMHO, ksh-emulation is a little bit like csh emulation: It's meant to
> make users with ksh background feel more "at home", not as a strict
> bug-for-bug emulation.
That's basically how I see it. It doesn't mean we can't do better --- but
I don't think we can do better by people who don't really use the mode
initiating random tweaks in the hope that the world becomes a better
place. We really would need someone who is in a position to take a
global view of how changes to the mode affect the emulation.
This is a rather different case from POSIX emulation, where there's (i)
a standard (ii) quite a lot of visibility of what the effect of changes
are.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-15 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-15 2:15 Vincent Lefevre
2012-02-15 8:14 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-02-15 9:10 ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-02-15 11:05 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-02-15 11:53 ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-02-15 12:09 ` Frank Terbeck
2012-02-15 12:23 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2012-02-15 12:42 ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-02-15 14:42 ` Oliver Kiddle
2012-02-15 14:56 ` Vincent Lefevre
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