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Re: Unicode on macs



Hi,

* Fabian Groffen wrote:

> On 10.4 this gives me a file containing "ab" regardless which shell I
> use, or if I'm logged into a Solaris or Linux system (using ssh).  So is
> it OSX, its Terminal.app, oor is it just that cat is dealing with bytes
> only?  Vim correctly removes two characters as expected.

That's a software problem I think when non-multibyte-enabled readline
routines are used. For example:

(gdb) a
Undefined command: "ab".  Try "help".
(gdb)

(I enter abé, hit bs 2 times and hit enter)

Does it work for in mutt, i.e. 'a: unknown command'?

Rocco

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