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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index a93d69552..25d59af7a 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -266,7 +266,11 @@ Multibyte Character Support Support for multibyte character sets that extend ASCII, such as UTF-8, is under development but the code in the line editor is sufficiently stable to be turned on by default in environments that provide full ISO 10646 support -including the preprocessor definition __STDC_ISO_10646__. +including the preprocessor definition __STDC_ISO_10646__. In principle +this definition does not guarantee the full environment, but in practice +systems with this defined also provide suitable library support. The shell +does not probe for all the features, so on other systems use of multibyte +support must be explicitly enabled when it is available. The support can be explicitly enabled or disable with --enable-multibyte or --disable-multibyte. Reports of systems where multibyte support was not |