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Re: Bug#346119: zsh: Non-ASCII letters are not accepted in variable names



On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:43:25 -0500
Clint Adams <schizo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>It seems that Zsh has stopped accepting non-ASCII letters 
> > >>in variable names:

Yes, it's too dangerous now we're starting to support multibyte
characters properly until we decide whether the character is a letter or
punctuation or whatever.  Eventually the test for valid identifiers will
be based on some locale-specific examination of multibyte characters,
but that hasn't been done yet.  Locale-specific definitions of
identifiers frighten me a bit, so I think they're best avoided, but
that'll be the best we can do.

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Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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