follow-up [ILUG] zsh and unicode...

[Brian Foster]

  > Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 23:44:30 +0200
  > From: Brian Foster <blf at blf.utvinternet.ie>
  > 
  >  | Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 20:31:37 +0100
  >  | From: kevin lyda <kevin at ie.suberic.net>
  >  |[ ... ]
  >  | How can I get zsh to be a bit smarter about [ UTF-8 encoding ]?
  > 
  >[ ... ]  unless `zsh' has its own private nonsense for
  >  handling charsets/encodings, you may be fscked here?

 it looks like yer (mostly?) fscked.  from the zsh FAQ,
 http://zsh.dotsrc.org/FAQ/zshfaq02.html

   “2.7: What is zsh's support for Unicode/UTF-8?

         `Unicode', or UCS for Universal Character Set,
          is the modern way of specifying character sets.
          It replaces a large number of ad hoc ways of
          supporting character sets beyond ASCII.
         `UTF-8' is an encoding of Unicode that is particularly
          natural on Unix-like systems.

      Q: Does zsh support UTF-8?
      A: [ ... ]  ZLE (the Zsh Line Editor) has no concept of
         character encodings, and is confused by multi-octet
         encodings.”

 however  http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Zsh  claims:

    “Unicode support.

     At this time the developent versions of zsh support utf-8
     (your [sic] can simply install zsh from cvs.  With this
     feature you can use zsh with any language.”

 I assume yer kiloage will vary.
cheers!
	-blf-
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