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@@ -272,7 +272,16 @@ The support can be explicitly enabled or disable with --enable-multibyte or --disable-multibyte. Reports of systems where multibyte support was not enabled by default but --enable-multibyte resulted in a usable shell would be appreciated. The developers are not aware of any need to use ---disable-multibyte and this should be reported as a bug. +--disable-multibyte and this should be reported as a bug. Currently +multibyte mode is believed to work automatically on: + + - All(?) current GNU/Linux distributions + - All(?) current BSD variants + - OS X 10.4.3 + +and to work when configured with --enable-multibyte on: + + - Solaris 8 and later The main shell is not yet aware of multibyte characters, so for example the length of a scalar parameter will return the number of bytes, not @@ -281,6 +290,8 @@ characters. This means that pattern tests such as ? and [[:alpha:]] do not work correctly with characters in multibyte character sets beyond the ASCII subset. +See chapter 5 in the FAQ for some notes on multibyte input. + Memory Routines --------------- |