Excerpts from André Ramaciotti's message of Tue Jul 07 19:58:10 -0400 2009: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Damjan Georgievski<gdamjan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Has anyone noticed that ctrl-c randomly stops working in the new bash? > >> > >> You might also consider taking this opportunity to switch to ZSH. > > > > I've just installed it, then I read this .. and it's a deal breaker: > > > > Q: Does zsh support UTF-8? > > > > A: zsh's built-in printf command supports "\u" and "\U" escapes to > > output arbitrary Unicode characters. ZLE (the Zsh Line Editor) has no > > concept of character encodings, and is confused by multi-octet > > encodings. > Try it, though. I'm Brazilian and I use some UTF-8 multibyte > characters (a small subset of it comparing with the Cyrillic alphabet, > which I presume you use) and I have no problems with files named with > UTF-8 characters. > > When I first tried ZSH, I ditched it because of it, but it's been a > long time since UTF-8 characters are working out of the box. Beat down and then redeemed :D -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)
