Re: Alias appends space character to end of non-latin string

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/1/22 4:07 AM, Vangelis Natsios wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 17
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> When creating an alias containing a path ending with a non-latin (e.g.
> greek) directory name, a space character is appended to the end of the
> path, causing the alias to fail.
> This does not happen when the non-latin part is in the middle and not the
> end of the path. This behaviour is new to bash v.5.0, worked as expected in
> v.4.X.

Thanks for the report. As Lawrence said, it's simpler than that. If the
alias ends in a multibyte character, it interferes with the sentinel the
parser adds to the end of the alias expansion to prevent potential
recursive expansion. This will be fixed in the next release candidate,
and in the devel branch.

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