Re: utf-8

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/18/2014 06:04 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>>
>> This has gone way off topic for the zsh-users list.  I don't recall if
>> the ietf-charsets list is still active, but that might be a better place
>> to go looking if it is.
>>
> Bart,
>
> Of topic? I'm wondering how one enters the newline character in zsh when one
> is using a different locale/alphabet.  I've only ever used English, and I'd
> expect that in, say, Cyrillic there would be some char that's a dead ringer
> for 'n' (as in '\n'), but in *principal* a Cyrillic 'n' might not be the
> same utf-8 code as 'our' 'n', so I'm wondering what zsh does about that.
> Spanish would have at least two 'candidates' for 'n'.  What does zsh do once
> we are outside of good old ASCII?

Escape sequences like \n and \t are always exactly those characters.

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Mikael Magnusson