Re: Readline macro definition with multibyte characters

[Chet Ramey]

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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