On Fri, Jul 1, 2022, at 4:07 AM, Vangelis Natsios wrote:
> When creating an alias containing a path ending with a non-latin (e.g.
> greek) directory name, a space character is appended to the end of the
> path, causing the alias to fail.
Not quite: Neither "paths" nor "non-Latin" characters are necessary,
and the space seems to be added at expansion, not definition.
bash-5.1$ echo "$BASH_VERSION"
5.1.16(1)-release
bash-5.1$ locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
bash-5.1$ alias a1='printf "<%s>\\n" áa'
bash-5.1$ a1
<áa>
bash-5.1$ alias a2='printf "<%s>\\n" aá'
bash-5.1$ a2
<aá >
bash-5.1$ alias a1 a2
alias a1='printf "<%s>\\n" áa'
alias a2='printf "<%s>\\n" aá'
--
vq
