PATCH: dev-3

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Some additional notes for dev-3 which I'll make while I'm still in a
paper-twiddling mood.

Index: INSTALL
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/INSTALL,v
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -r1.23 INSTALL
--- INSTALL	18 Dec 2005 19:47:29 -0000	1.23
+++ INSTALL	6 Feb 2006 12:01:53 -0000
@@ -282,8 +282,8 @@
   - OS X 10.4.3 (problems have been reported with multibyte characters
     in HFS file names)
   - NetBSD 2.0.2
-
-Any help with Solaris 8 or 9 would be appreciated.
+  - Solaris 8+ (inputting multibyte characters from the keyboard doesn't
+    work in some installations).
 
 The main shell is not yet aware of multibyte characters, so for example the
 length of a scalar parameter will return the number of bytes, not
Index: README
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/README,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -r1.24 README
--- README	6 Feb 2006 11:57:03 -0000	1.24
+++ README	6 Feb 2006 12:01:53 -0000
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@
 The variable HOME is no longer set by the shell; it must be present
 in the environment.  It is valid for the variable to be unset.
 
+Zsh has previously been lax about whether it allows octets with the
+top bit set to be part of a shell identifier.  With --enable-multibyte set,
+this is now completely disabled.  This is a temporary fix until the main
+shell handles multibyte characters properly and the appropriate library
+tests can be used.  This change may be reviewed if no such permanent fix
+is forthcoming.
+
 Documentation
 -------------
 
Index: Config/version.mk
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Config/version.mk,v
retrieving revision 1.53
diff -u -r1.53 version.mk
--- Config/version.mk	12 Dec 2005 18:51:47 -0000	1.53
+++ Config/version.mk	6 Feb 2006 12:01:54 -0000
@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@
 # This must also serve as a shell script, so do not add spaces around the
 # `=' signs.
 
-VERSION=4.3.0-dev-2
-VERSION_DATE='December 9, 2005'
+VERSION=4.3.0-dev-3
+VERSION_DATE='February 6, 2006'

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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