From 6d61a3859ecdcd2813a5d2f06393208fa2feb399 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Stephenson Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 17:16:37 +0000 Subject: 22578: ensure HISTCHARS/histchars never contains non-ASCII characters --- README | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index c2d4dff88..81f868f02 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ previous value was observed to be large enough that crashes still occurred on some fairly common PC configurations. This change is only likely to affect some highly specialised uses of the shell. +The variables HISTCHARS and histchars now reject any attempt to +set non-ASCII characters for history or comments. Multibyte characters +have never worked and the most consistent change was to restrict the +set to portable characters only. + Documentation ------------- -- cgit 1.4.1