On Sunday, April 19, 2026, Duncan Roe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Oğuz,
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 05:57:52AM +0300, Oğuz wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 15, 2026, Duncan Roe <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > So UTF-8 is the only multibyte encoding it handles?
> > >
> > > Yes, at least for now. It didn't look to me as though zgetline could
> cope
> > > with
> > > utf16 anyway: a number of utf16 characters have newline as one of their
> > > bytes
> > > for instance.
> > >
> >
> > IIRC bash supports Big5, Shift-JIS, etc.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Oğuz
>
> I might look into doing some other multi-byte encodings later on.
>
> Which would you suggest would be the most important?


I doubt anyone uses them anymore, it's just that Bash supports such
encodings and shipping a loadable builtin that doesn't along with Bash
wouldn't be ideal.


>
> Cheers ... Duncan.
>
>

-- 
Oğuz

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