From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20352 invoked from network); 19 Jan 1999 16:11:06 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 19 Jan 1999 16:11:06 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA24950; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:05:53 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:05:53 -0500 (EST) Sender: rz2a022@uni-hamburg.de Message-ID: <36A4AD75.ECD99DF0@rrz.uni-hamburg.de> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:06:13 +0100 From: Bernd Eggink Organization: RRZ Uni Hamburg X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; AIX 4.2) X-Accept-Language: German, de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zsh Workers Subject: German umlaut bugs on Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Resent-Message-ID: <"XjnI22.0.n56.XrAfs"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/4927 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Handling of German special characters (umlauts and 'ß') is still buggy on Linux (unpatched 3.1.5 version). print 'mäh' from the terminal works OK, but print "mäh" gives $PS2 on the next line. Entering " then produces the message zsh: command not found: h\n Within a script, the command works as expected. I tried the same on AIX, no such bugs there. Bernd -- Bernd Eggink Regionales Rechenzentrum der Uni Hamburg eggink@rrz.uni-hamburg.de http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/eggink/BEggink.html