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Re: bash UTF-8 command line editing
From: |
Chet Ramey |
Subject: |
Re: bash UTF-8 command line editing |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:19:05 -0400 |
> version: GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
> (Debian Woody bundled version)
>
> When using a UTF-8 locale, and most other tools seem to be functioning
> correctly (indicating no misconfiguration), bash will display UTF-8
> characters as they are typed, but backspace and cursoring become
> misplaced because of the string length versus symbol length differences.
Multibyte character support was not added to bash and readline until
bash-2.05b/readline-4.3.
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