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diff --git a/README b/README index 81f868f02..68ddfd61a 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ top bit set to be part of a shell identifier. Older versions of the shell assumed all such octets were allowed in identifiers, however the POSIX standard does not allow such characters in identifiers. The older behaviour is still obtained with --disable-multibyte in effect. -With --enable-multibyte set there are three possible cases: +With --enable-multibyte in effect (this is now the default anywhere +it is supported) there are three possible cases: MULTIBYTE option unset: only ASCII characters are allowed; the shell does not attempt to identify non-ASCII characters at all. MULTIBYTE option set, POSIX_IDENTIFIERS option unset: in addition |