Re: accents

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/10/11 9:17 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> In yours, however, it is 0x65 0xcc 0x81 which is U+0065 LATIN SMALL
> LETTER E followed by U+0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT.
> 
> Perhaps Bash does not know how to interpret COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT which
> follows a letter...?
> 
> I'm not intimately familiar with this stuff myself, but it looks like
> a real bastard to me... I thought the point of UTF-8 was that you could
> read it a byte at a time, and know when you encountered a byte that
> signified the start of a multi-byte character.  But apparently not!
> If I'm interpreting this COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT thing properly, the
> only indicator that you are in a multi-byte character comes with the
> *second* byte, so you have to backtrack.  What idiot thought this up?

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2011-01/msg00011.html

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