German umlaut bugs on Linux

German umlaut bugs on Linux

[Bernd Eggink]

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

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Re: German umlaut bugs on Linux

[Peter Stephenson]

Bernd Eggink wrote:
> Handling of German special characters (umlauts and '=DF') is still buggy
> on Linux (unpatched 3.1.5 version).
> 
>   print 'm=E4h'
> 
> from the terminal works OK, but
> 
>   print "m=E4h"
> 
> gives $PS2 on the next line. Entering " then produces the message
> 
>   zsh: command not found: h\n


(=E4 is u-umlaut, I haven't fixed up quoted-printables in quotations.)

Try zsh-workers/4612.  It's specific to machines where char is signed.

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