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@@ -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