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Re: Echoing of 8-bit-characters broken after 4.3.2?

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From: Wolfgang Hukriede <whukriede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Echoing of 8-bit-characters broken after 4.3.2?
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:31:05 +0100
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Andrey wrote:
> Wolfgang, what happens if you explicitly disable multibyte support (--
> disable-multibyte) during build?

I did not know about that option. I will report asap.

Btw, I've to correct myself with respect to LANG, since I wrote:
> change the export to
> LANG=IS.ISO8859-1 though since otherwise `date' talks in a language
> which is unknown to me ...

True, but setting LANG to "is_IS.ISO8859-1" once and then setting it
to anything else seems to do the trick as well:

  > export LANG=is_IS.ISO8859-1
  > date
  lau 28 feb 2009 21:17:50 CET

  > export LANG=nada
  > date
  Sat Feb 28 21:24:36 CET 2009

Eight-bit-chars still work.

  > unset LANG

Again, eight-bit-chars still work.

Seems dubious to me.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Echoing of 8-bit-characters broken after 4.3.2?
  - From: Andrey Borzenkov

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