Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: powerpc
OS: darwin8.11.0
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='powerpc' -
DCONF_OSTYPE='darwin8.11.0' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='powerpc-apple-
darwin8.11.0' -DCONF_VENDOR='apple' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/local/
bash-3.2.9/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -
DMACOSX -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -g -O2
uname output: Darwin asterix.local 8.11.0 Darwin Kernel Version
8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/
RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
Machine Type: powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0
Bash Version: 3.2
Patch Level: 9
Release Status: release
Description:
See:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-bash@gnu.org/msg04073.html
Mac OS X, when listing directories, reports filenames in
UTF-8 NFD. With an UTF-8 configured input, bash receives
strings in UTF-8 NFC. Thus its filename completion cannot
match input strings with filesystem entities when accents
occur.
Repeat-By:
cd /tmp
mkdir Réseau
ls Ré<tab>
(Réseau is not proposed as possible completion)
Fix:
I have come up with a fix that works great on my system,
using iconv (bundled with Mac OS X, anyway).
I'm wondering though:
- Does it work well on "alternate" filesystems (is NFD
done on OS level, or is it driver dependent?). If someone
on the list has NTFS-3G-mounted disks or SSHFS, can he/she
test that at least there is no loss in functionality?
- Is it Mac OS X specific? I think Darwin has the same VFS
layer. In this case, is there a more general replacement
for #ifdef MACOSX?
- iconv could certainly be detected in a cleaner way as I
did (forcefully adding it to link libs, and implying it
from MACOSX preprocessing define).
Tested with Terminal (UTF-8: works; non-UTF-8: does not
complete, so not better than before but that's normal) and
xterm.
I have put the patch here (diff -u format):
http://ks31107.kimsufi.com/gui/bash-mac-filename-completion.patch
I have made it for bash 3.2.9, it runs unmodified on a
3.2.49, and I now use it on a 4.0.24 (patch utility
detected a 83-lines offset and ran happily)
