Re: To Do List for 2001

[towo@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk about the bash readline function:

: I am the author. Indeed this was a quick and dirty patch, where all
: processing is done in terms of UTF-8 byte sequences instead of with
: wide characters.
: ...
: avoided loss of information by converting back and forth (in UTF-8
: mode you can tab-complete a filename not in UTF-8, which will not
: display correctly but will execute).
This is indeed an important property which should be maintained.
So using "pure Unicode" library functions is not the appropriate 
solution here, I think.
(Just as with my editor mined which is transparent with respect to 
illegal UTF-8 sequences (and other binary stuff) - announcement of 
the next release will follow soon, by the way.)

Thomas Wolff
-
Linux-UTF8:   i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive:      http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/