[Tcsh] "Readable" Unicode in setenv

[H.Merijn Brand]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 19:58:34 +0200, Kimmo Suominen <kim at netbsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 19:56, Kimmo Suominen <kim at netbsd.org> wrote:
> > To make it easier for everyone to try this out, I've released 6.23.01:
> > ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/tcsh/tcsh-6.23.00.tar.gz  
> 
> I really meant:
> ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/tcsh/tcsh-6.23.01.tar.gz
> 
> > RMD160 (tcsh-6.23.01.tar.gz) = 6e760ce9fc75a8ce36fdfbc590a38186cac564d5  
> 
> Cheers,
> + Kimmo

I don't know if it is related, but given I have AltGr - t - u mapped as
�� in my .XCompose, look at what is happening when I enter that at the
command prompt and how it is shown:

tux:/home/merijn 503 > \U+1F44D
��: Command not found.

tux:/home/merijn 504 > history 2
   503 12-10 15:14:12  ��
   504 12-10 15:16:48  history 2

tux:/home/merijn 505 > echo "\U+1F44D"
\U+1F44D


Which makes it a weird user experience in that the way tcsh displays
codepoints is not supported on input, so for consistency, I'd suggest
to change \U+1F44D to \U1F44D (remove the +) or (also) support the + as
optional on input.

As a bonus I would personally cheer an option to display Unicode on
input as the character itself as it is done in all other locations

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