Re: What are future plans about utf-8?

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 19:17:13 +0500, Ilya Kuznecov wrote:
> > As far as I know, now zsh doesn't support utf-8 (or other Unicode 
> > implementations). Anybody works in this global area?
> 
> I'd also be very interested in UTF-8 support.

Lots of people would, but there's less interest in (or more probably
less time available for) working on it.

Phillip Vandry has volunteered to do some changes to zle, and there is
now local support by Oliver for printing Unicode characters, but apart
from that it has been largely talk so far.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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