On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 04:44:08PM -0400, tetsu...@scope-eye.net wrote: > For that to work, basically the character encoding used to interpret > the script should be (potentially) distinct from the one used to > interact with the rest of the system. > > ...But that gets complicated: the shell would need to interpret the > script in its locale of origin, but still respect the locale for other > matters of I/O. [...]
The main issue here is that the author's locale may not *exist* on the user's machine. There may not be any way for bash to determine which non-ASCII characters constitute "letters" in the author's locale.
