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Re: Readline macro definition with multibyte characters
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Readline macro definition with multibyte characters |
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Sun, 5 Feb 2017 15:28:14 -0500 |
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On 2/4/17 9:07 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> The character-search command accepts multibyte characters just fine, but
> when reading input from a macro, multibyte characters are not processed
> correctly. For example trying to invoke the macro defined with:
>
> bind '"\C-f": "\C-]π"'
>
> will fail to search and will instead type just the second byte of the
> character (x80).
>
> The following one-line patch fixes the behavior, but I'm not sure if this
> the right place to do it.
Thanks for the report. It's a good fix. rl_read_key should return all
valid characters as if they are unsigned chars and reserve values < 0
for EOF and errors.
Chet
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