Re: Are completion and prompt expansion 8-bit clean?

[Andrej Borsenkow <borsenkow.msk@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Zefram wrote:

> Alain Caron wrote:
> >Subject: Are completion and prompt expansion 8-bit clean?
> 
> In one sense, yes: they can handle 8-bit data.  In fact, they can handle
> arbitrary binary data.  In another sense, no: they do not treat all 8-bit
> data as printable, even when the display will interpret them as Latin-1
> or whatever.  Unfortunately, Unix does not provide a way to find out
> what characters are printable on a particular display device, so we have
> to choose in the source which characters zsh will treat as printable.
> No choice can be right for all displays; the current choice is a safe one.
> 
> The bug is in Unix; please send the bug report to K.Thompson and
> D.Ritchie, twenty years ago.  This bug will be fixed in a future OS[1].
> 

Sorry? What about LANG and LC_CTYPE? They existed long ago.

I don't know, which OS is in use; but check your LANG/LC_CTYPE/LC_ALL
settings - they should be appropriate for French locale. If it doesn't
help, it your OS (probably, implementation of ctype functions or
setlocale()) that is broken. 

BTW it is documeneted in zshparam(1) - at least for 3.0.4 and 3.1.2.

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