[arch-general] CTRL-C stops working in bash 4.0

Andrei Thorp garoth at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 09:55:58 EDT 2009


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 at gmail.com> 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.

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Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)


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