Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

On 02/15/2011 12:37 PM, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
> <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>  wrote:
>> from what I can see upstream libedit actually has utf8 support for a while
>> now (as well as some other fixes) but the debian libedit version (and also
>> the one of other distributions) is way too old for that so maybe most of the
>> issues would be mood if debian updated to a newer libedit version...
>
> There's utf8 support and then there's utf8 support. last I saw libedit
> didn't actually stop you from using utf8 and things kind of worked,
> but none of the editing commands understand what the multibyte
> characters were or understood what column position you were in so you
> could easily end up deleting half a character or with the insertion
> point in the middle of a character.

well I have not actually tested - I was just reading the changelog on 
http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/ which claims UTF8 "support" (whatever 
that means) in the current code drop.


Stefan