On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 10:16:30PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: > > Should UTF-8 be assumed? > You realize bash already allows UTF-8 input?
Of course. Both Bash and Readline are able to process multibyte character input. That's not the same as parsing multibyte sequences in *code*. See Python's Enhancement Proposal on the matter to get a glimpse of some of the challenges of implementing Unicode identifiers: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3131/ [...] > I don't suppose we wanted something more expressive or symbolic? > > Couldn't we have gotten by with the original Bourne shell? Why develop > bash? What was the actual need? Because the Bourne shell was not free software. And this has nothing to do at all with your RFE. > How do you emphasize a var, say in italic or bold? I don't. It's source code. I don't write source code in Spanish, nor do I don't underline, emphasize, strike, bold, italic, ... > Anyway, bash already has some unicode parsing in it because > it accepts UTF-8. So it wouldn't have to be the complete > rewrite you make it. Then it shouldn't be hard for you to craft a small patch and send it to the list so that we can review it. Don't put words on my mouth. I said that it will increase the complexity of the parser, and will most likely introduce a whole new class of parsing bugs. If you want to give it a try, be my guest. But don't ask for stuff without considering the cost of what you're requesting, or if you're not willing to make part of the contribution yourself. Anyways. Unless I see an actual patch, this will be my last response to this thread. -- Eduardo Bustamante https://dualbus.me/
