[Tcsh] "Readable" Unicode in setenv

Kimmo Suominen kim at netbsd.org
Fri Dec 10 15:22:43 UTC 2021


On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 at 16:57, H.Merijn Brand <tcsh at tux.freedom.nl> wrote:
> 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.

Agreed -- but I don't know when I'll get around to it. Would you mind
opening a ticket on https://bugs.astron.com/ as a reminder, please?

> 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

And for extra credit it would be great if tcsh wouldn't "lock up" for
the next 4 bytes or so when you input something that is invalid UTF-8.
This is actually my favourite bug to complain about... :)

Cheers,
+ Kimmo


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