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diff --git a/README b/README index 88b6be3a9..78fcf5489 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -49,6 +49,13 @@ The variable HOME is no longer set by the shell if zsh is emulating any other shell at startup; it must be present in the environment or set subsequently by the user. It is valid for the variable to be unset. +The MULTIBYTE option is on by default where it is available; this +causes many operations to recognise characters as in the current locale. +Older versions of the shell always assumed a character was one byte. +In some places the width of the character will be used; this is transparent +when used for calculations of screen position, but also occurs, for +example, in calculations of padding width. + Zsh has previously been lax about whether it allows octets with the 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 |