Re: NUL must be a first class citizen [was: Some groundwork for Unicode in Zle]

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

"Matthias B." wrote:
> If 0-terminated wchar_t strings are to be used, then NUL has to be
> remapped or escaped, so that it's not encoded as 0, just as it is done in
> zsh currently.

That's not the idea; the command line in zle will be an array of valid
wchar_t's with a line length.  In the main shell NULs will continue
to be Meta-escaped (they won't change since the current single-byte
representation is still valid).  The case of NULs is one of the simple
ones.

pws


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