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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/Zsh/params.yo | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/Zsh/roadmap.yo | 11 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/params.yo b/Doc/Zsh/params.yo index 3da63fa78..dec742f07 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/params.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/params.yo @@ -906,7 +906,12 @@ information within ranges in glob brackets and for sorting. vindex(LC_CTYPE) item(tt(LC_CTYPE) <S>)( This variable determines the locale category for character handling -functions. +functions. If the tt(MULTIBYTE) option is in effect this variable or +tt(LANG) should contain a value that reflects the character set in +use, even if it is a single-byte character set, unless only the +7-bit subset (ASCII) is used. For example, if the character set +is ISO-8859-1, a suitable value might be tt(en_US.iso88591) (certain +Linux distributions) or tt(en_US.ISO8859-1) (MacOS). ) vindex(LC_MESSAGES) item(tt(LC_MESSAGES) <S>)( diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/roadmap.yo b/Doc/Zsh/roadmap.yo index d9b5d53ce..fd87c74ab 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/roadmap.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/roadmap.yo @@ -50,6 +50,17 @@ by the shell, but the degree of support in terminal emulators is variable. There is some discussion of this in the shell FAQ, http://zsh.dotsrc.org/FAQ/ . Note in particular that for combining characters to be handled the option tt(COMBINING_CHARS) needs to be set. +Because the shell is now more sensitive to the definition of the +character set, note that if you are upgrading from an older version of +the shell you should ensure that the appropriate variable, either +tt(LANG) (to affect all aspects of the shell's operation) or +tt(LC_CTYPE) (to affect only the handling of character sets) is set to +an appropriate value. This is true even if you are using a +single-byte character set including extensions of ASCII such as +tt(ISO-8859-1) or tt(ISO-8859-15). See the description of tt(LC_CTYPE) +in +ifnzman(noderef(Parameters))\ +ifzman(zmanref(zshparam)). subsect(Completion) |