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| author | Peter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net> | 2005-12-15 10:38:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net> | 2005-12-15 10:38:55 +0000 |
| commit | b5a83cc7549e48a82dd57859f40a8f282f1534d0 (patch) | |
| tree | 1eba31736a892a857e5addc6d8ece520d218e4a8 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 174ad4a80fa13a843a319c516e703ae74858ad39 (diff) | |
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users/9788: add (oN) glob qualifier for no sorting
22076: more documentation for multibyte handling
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 855164f89..a7635e12e 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -272,7 +272,16 @@ The support can be explicitly enabled or disable with --enable-multibyte or --disable-multibyte. Reports of systems where multibyte support was not enabled by default but --enable-multibyte resulted in a usable shell would be appreciated. The developers are not aware of any need to use ---disable-multibyte and this should be reported as a bug. +--disable-multibyte and this should be reported as a bug. Currently +multibyte mode is believed to work automatically on: + + - All(?) current GNU/Linux distributions + - All(?) current BSD variants + - OS X 10.4.3 + +and to work when configured with --enable-multibyte on: + + - Solaris 8 and later The main shell is not yet aware of multibyte characters, so for example the length of a scalar parameter will return the number of bytes, not @@ -281,6 +290,8 @@ characters. This means that pattern tests such as ? and [[:alpha:]] do not work correctly with characters in multibyte character sets beyond the ASCII subset. +See chapter 5 in the FAQ for some notes on multibyte input. + Memory Routines --------------- |