From a3e73c8d05526b8c9d0735cfe747411567784a83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Stephenson Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 21:04:52 +0000 Subject: 26683: add some notes on LC_CTYPE --- Doc/Zsh/roadmap.yo | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'Doc/Zsh/roadmap.yo') 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) -- cgit 1.4.1