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From: Dan@dna.lth.se (Dan Oscarsson)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: when is bash going to be more international?
Message-ID: <1989Nov21.135935.3591@lth.se>
Date: 21 Nov 89 13:59:35 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
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bash is not 8-bit transparent!
If I am going to start using bash it must support
8-bit character sets. The bash code as well as a lot
of other code is full of stupid use of the 8th bit in
bytes for quoting and other things.

Please start thinking that characters are at least 8-bit long even
if you are americans.

In bash 1.04 you can bind an input string to a edit function.
Can you bind an input string to a string?

Also does bash support overwrite mode in editing the input line?
I need that too.

    Dan


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Dan Oscarsson                              Department of Computer Science
                                           Lund Institute of Technology
e-mail:  Dan@dna.lth.se                    Box 118
                                           S-221 00 Lund, Sweden