From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8004 invoked from network); 3 Jul 1997 04:24:41 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 3 Jul 1997 04:24:41 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA20265; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 23:52:31 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 23:52:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <970702210103.ZM12716@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 21:01:03 -0700 In-Reply-To: <9707030152.AA15017@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Comments: In reply to Uli Zappe "German Umlauts still don't work" (Jul 3, 3:52am) References: <19742.199706262142@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <9707030152.AA15017@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0b.820 20aug96) To: Uli Zappe , zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: German Umlauts still don't work MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"sI7_c3.0.ay4.-7okp"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3341 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Jul 3, 3:52am, Uli Zappe wrote: } Subject: German Umlauts still don't work } } the German Umlaut problem I brought up a few days ago is more } difficult to solve than expected. } } Peter Stephenson suggested to patch utils.c which is the only } source file in zsh making use of isprint(c) which delivers incorrect } results for NEXTSTEP. I presume you also did `setopt PRINTEIGHTBIT` after applying that patch? Just checking ... } I tried that, but it didn't change a thing. Obviously there is } another part of the zsh source that's limiting zsh's behaviour; it's } definitely *not* the isprint(c) part (which would be easy to } replace by the correct NXIsPrint(c) for the NEXTSTEP version, BTW). Is the symptom that the characters display as \M-a, or simply that they lose the umlauts? What's your `stty -a` output? } Does anyone have an idea where to look? With some grepping, I can't find any output of file names that doesn't pass through the right functions, except fprintdir() which seems to always output the raw string (so it can't be accidentally \M-ifying it). -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com