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Re: bash still sees shell special characters inside Chinese characters
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Sven Mascheck |
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Re: bash still sees shell special characters inside Chinese characters |
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Date: |
17 Jun 2001 05:12:04 +0200 |
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tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.8 (sun4u)) |
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@kimo.fixcomthis.tw> wrote:
> I entered the Chinese
> $ echo ?|
> [$ echo [the Chinese character hui4 "meeting"]]
> and bash 2.04 sees the "|" inside this character [as seen by od -c]
> and gives me the ">" prompt for a 2nd line. Yes, all my LC_
> environment variables are set to zh_TW.Big5.
AFAIK, bash doesn't really support input methods / multi-byte locales.
I only tried bash-2.05 with UTF-8 locale on Solaris 8, but this seems
to confirm it (the system ksh did much better, and ksh93 in contrast
was too insuficcient either).
So if you eventually can't find anything by starting with the Chinese-HOWTO...