From 2d87bf8dff1d511bab4863a3ee68dcccf508997e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Stephenson Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:20:40 +0000 Subject: 40049: NEWS about Unicode 9 (40037) --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 433703a1e..403cd612c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ Note also the list of incompatibilities in the README file. Changes from 5.2 to 5.3 ----------------------- +It is possible to enable character width support for Unicode 9 by +configuring with `--enable-unicode9'; this compiles in some additional +tables. At some point this support may move into a module, in which +case the configure option will be changed to cause the module to be +permanently loaded. This option is not useful unless your terminal also +supports Unicode 9. + The new word modifier ':P' computes the physical path of the argument. It is different from the existing ':a' modifier which always resolves '/before/here/../after' to '/before/after', and differs from the -- cgit 1.4.1