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27710: update FAQ on advanced character sets
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2010-02-15 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
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* 27710: Etc/FAQ.yo: update sections on advanced character sets.
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* unposted: Etc/FAQ.yo: correct outrageously old dates in FAQ.
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2010-02-13 Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
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* This is used by the shell to define $ZSH_PATCHLEVEL
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* $Revision: 1.4899 $
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* $Revision: 1.4900 $
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@ -933,37 +933,16 @@ sect(What is zsh's support for Unicode/UTF-8?)
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ways of supporting character sets beyond ASCII. `UTF-8' is an
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encoding of Unicode that is particularly natural on Unix-like systems.
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Q: Does zsh support UTF-8?
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A: zsh's built-in printf command supports "\u" and "\U" escapes
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to output arbitrary Unicode characters. ZLE (the Zsh Line Editor) has
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The production branch of zsh, 4.2, has very limited support:
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the built-in printf command supports "\u" and "\U" escapes
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to output arbitrary Unicode characters; ZLE (the Zsh Line Editor) has
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no concept of character encodings, and is confused by multi-octet
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encodings.
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Q: Why doesn't zsh have proper UTF-8 support?
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A: The code has not been written yet.
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Q: What makes UTF-8 support difficult to implement?
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A: In order to handle arbitrary encodings the correct way, significant
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and intrusive changes must be made to the shell.
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Q: Why can't zsh just use readline?
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A: ZLE is not encapsulated from the rest of the shell. Isolating it
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such that it could be replaced by readline would be a significant
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effort. Furthermore, using readline would effect a significant loss of
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features.
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Q: What changes are planned?
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A: Introduction of Unicode support will be gradual, so if you are
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interested in being involved you should join the zsh-workers mailing
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list. As a first step ZLE will be rewritten to use wide characters
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internally. Character based widgets can then operate on a single wide
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character instead of a single byte, and the proper display width can be
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calculated with wcswidth().
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However, the 4.3 branch has much better support, and furthermore this
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is now fairly stable. (Only a few minor areas need fixing before
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this becomes a production release.) This is discussed more
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fully below, see `Multibyte input and output'.
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chapter(How to get various things to work)
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@ -2030,7 +2009,7 @@ sect(What is multibyte input?)
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zsh will be able to use any such encoding as long as it contains ASCII as
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a single-octet subset and the system can provide information about other
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characters. However, in the case of Unicode, UTF-8 is the only one you
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are likely to enounter.
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are likely to enounter that is useful in zsh.
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(In case you're confused: Unicode is the character set, while UTF-8 is
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an encoding of it. You might hear about other encodings, such as UCS-2
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Note that if the shell is emulating a Bourne shell the tt(MULTIBYTE)
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option is unset by default. This allows various POSIX modes to
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work normally (POSIX does not deal with multibyte characters). If
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you use a "sh" or "ksh" emulation interactively you shouldprobably
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you use a "sh" or "ksh" emulation interactively you should probably
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set the tt(MULTIBYTE) option.
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The other option that affects multibyte support is tt(COMBINING_CHARS),
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assumed to be modifications (accents etc.) to the base character and to
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be displayed within the same screen area as the base character. As not
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all terminals handle this, even if they correctly display the base
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multibyte character, this option is not on by default. The KDE terminal
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emulator tt(konsole), tt(rxvt-unicode), and the Unicode version of
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xterm, tt(xterm -u8) or the front-end tt(uxterm), are known to handle
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multibyte character, this option is not on by default. Recent versions
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of the KDE and GNOME terminal emulators tt(konsole) and
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tt(gnome-terminal) as well as tt(rxvt-unicode), and the Unicode version
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of xterm, tt(xterm -u8) or the front-end tt(uxterm), are known to handle
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combining characters.
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The tt(COMBINING_CHARS) option only affects output; combining characters
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edit file names that have been created using a different character
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set it won't work properly.)
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it() The terminal emulator. Those that are supplied with a recent
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desktop environment, such as gnome-terminal, are likely to have
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extensive support for localization and may work correctly as soon
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as they know the locale. You can enable UTF-8 support for
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tt(xterm) in its application defaults file. The following are
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the relevant resources; you don't actually need all of them, as
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described below. If you use a mytt(~/.Xdefaults) or
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desktop environment, such as tt(konsole) and tt(gnome-terminal), are
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likely to have extensive support for localization and may work
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correctly as soon as they know the locale. You can enable UTF-8
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support for tt(xterm) in its application defaults file. The
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following are the relevant resources; you don't actually need all of
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them, as described below. If you use a mytt(~/.Xdefaults) or
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mytt(~/.Xresources) file for setting resources, prefix all the lines
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with mytt(xterm):
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verb(
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this feature does.) If your terminal doesn't have characters
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that need to be input as multibyte, however, you can still use
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the meta bindings and can ignore the warning message. Use
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mytt(bindkey -m 2>/dev/null) to suprress it.
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mytt(bindkey -m 2>/dev/null) to suppress it.
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You might also note that the latest version of the Cygwin environment
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for Windows supports UTF-8. In previous versions, zsh was able
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to compile with the tt(MULTIBYTE) option enabled, but the system
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didn't provide full support for it.
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sect(How can I input characters that aren't on my keyboard?)
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however, using UTF-8 massively extends the number of valid characters
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that can be produced.
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If you have a recent X Window System installation, you might find
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the tt(AltGr) key helps you input accented Latin characters; for
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example on my keyboard tt(AltGr-; e) gives mytt(e) with an acute accent.
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See also url(http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#input)(http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#input)
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for general information on entering Unicode characters from a keyboard.
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