zsh-2.6beta12 bug

[Heiko Schroeder <heiko@pc73121.dialup.rwth-aachen.de>]

Hi!

I think I found a small bug in zsh-2.6beta12: the shell won't correctly
process input lines with 8 bit (Latin-1) characters. Processing seems to
stop at the character with it and the rest of the line being discarded.

The cause seems to be line 130 of input.c. The line

	    return lastc = (unsigned)*inbufptr++;

near the beginning of ingetc() should read:

	    return lastc = (unsigned char)*inbufptr++;

The original line may still produce a negative value for characters which
have bit 7 set. (At least with gcc 2.7.0 on a i486 running linux, I
couldn't test it under different environments.)

Perhaps it would be even cleaner to change the declaration of inbufptr
to "unsigned char *" instead of "char *".

CU
   Heiko

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