Re: problems with 4.3.4 and Tru64

[Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@cc.hut.fi>]

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Peter Stephenson wrote:

> Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@cc.hut.fi> wrote:
>> 'unset LANG' doesn't seem to help, and setopt doesn't show multibyte
>> even if I try to load it. So it somehow fails to load, apparently?
>
> It occurs to me this may simply be confusion because if multibyte is
> on by default, it doesn't show up with "setopt" because that shows options
> changed from the default.  Try also "setopt kshoptionprint".  Then you
> should be able to see the state of multibyte with a further "setopt".  It
> should now show up as "nomultibyte off", i.e. no change from the default
> state of multibyte on.

That's right, it shows "nomultibyte off".

> (If that's not the problem: check that
>
> #define MULTIBYTE_SUPPORT 1
>
> is present in config.h.  If that's the case, multibyte support should be
> compiled into the main shell and turned on by default.  Does "setopt
> multibyte" give an error?  I presume it doesn't, but if it does, it may be
> the wrong version of the shell.)

Doesn't give any error.

> If that's all it is, and multibyte mode is on, see if something brutal does
> the trick:
>
> (unset LANG; unset -m 'LC_*'; export LC_ALL=fi_FI.UTF-8; zsh -f)

no change :/

thanks,

t