From 5a6452742793d99bd899c50d3412db40275e6d9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Stephenson Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:28:53 +0000 Subject: 22272: 4.3.0-dev-4 --- INSTALL | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'INSTALL') 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 -- cgit 1.4.1