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| -rw-r--r-- | Etc/FAQ.yo | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 5 |
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diff --git a/Etc/FAQ.yo b/Etc/FAQ.yo index e6ff78803..7eb6143ba 100644 --- a/Etc/FAQ.yo +++ b/Etc/FAQ.yo @@ -296,10 +296,10 @@ sect(On what machines will it run?) sect(What's the latest version?) - Zsh 4.2.6 is the latest production version. A release on the - 4.3 development branch is imminent; this will contain support - for multibyte character strings (such as UTF-8 locales) in the - line editor. + Zsh 4.2.6 is the latest production version. The latest development + version is 4.3.1; this contains support for multibyte character strings + (such as UTF-8 locales) in the line editor, although the rest of the + shell does not yet have full multibyte support. There will not be any further 4.0 releases now that 4.2 has become the stable version. @@ -2257,8 +2257,9 @@ sect(What's on the wish-list?) Some future possibilities which have been suggested: itemize( it() The shell, in particular the line editor, should support Unicode - characters. Initial support for this should appear in version 4.3, - but this is a large job. + characters. Initial support for this appeared in version 4.3; + it is reasonably complete in the line editor but patchy elsewhere + (note this may require the configuration option --enable-multibyte). it() The parameter code could do with tidying up, maybe with more of the features made available in ksh93. it() Configuration files to enable zsh startup files to be created @@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ Major changes between versions 4.2 and 4.3 not to break existing code (and to be compatible with proposals for the Korn shell). +- Substitutions of the form ${var:-"$@"}, ${var:+"$@"} and similar where + word-splitting is applied to the text after the :- or :+ (in particular, + where the SH_WORD_SPLIT option is in effect for compatibility) now + behave as in other Bourne- and POSIX-compatible shells when in the + appropriate emulation mode. + - New Posix-style zsh-specific tests [[:IDENT:]], [[:IFS:]], [[:IFSSPACE:]], [[:WORD:]] test if character can appear in identifier, is an IFS character, is an IFS whitespace character, or is considered @@ -5,7 +5,10 @@ THE Z SHELL (ZSH) Version ------- -This is development code before the release of version 4.3.1. +This is version 4.3.1 of the shell. This is a development release, +but is believed to be reasonably stable. Sites where the users need to +edit command lines with multibyte characters (in particular UTF-8) +will probably want to upgrade. Installing Zsh -------------- |