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 2007-05-21  Peter Stephenson  <pws@csr.com>
 
+	* Unposted, see discussion around 23431: MACHINES: mention
+	multibyte oddity on MacOS.
+
 	* 23440: README, Doc/Zsh/params.yo, Src/params.c,
 	Test/D06subscript.ztst: Reverse parameter subscripting
 	with (R) now returns the empty string on failure.  Other
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@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ Apple: MacOS X/Darwin 10.x
 
 	Reported to compile with no problems on 10.4.
 
+	Multibyte support works, although (as on other architectures)
+	Unicode combining characters are not properly handled.
+	Problems have been noted when outputting multibyte characters
+	to the terminal from a "preexec" function.
+
 Red Hat Inc.: Cygwin
 	Should build `out-of-the-box'.  The compilation directory should
 	be on a file system mounted as binary (the mount command shows