konsole/gnome-terminal/xterm, UTF-8 and backspace
Doncho N. Gunchev
mr700 at globalnet.bg
Wed Dec 8 17:26:06 UTC 2004
On 2004 12 08 (Wednesday) 16:19, P at draigBrady.com wrote:
> Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
> > Hello,
> > when a shell/python script reads input from the user in konsole and
> > gnome-terminal it I enter non-ascii characters (ex: "Проба", "Test" in
> > English) backspace does not work correct. For example:
> > --- cut ---
> > $ echo -n "Test: "; read a; echo "[$a]"
> > Test: Проба
> > [ You can paste this, then hit backspace 4 times to get the next line ]
> > Test: П
> > [ Press Enter here and you get ]
> > [Про]
> > $ _
> > --- cut ---
> > If I erase one character I get '[Проб�'
> > Text editing in bash and mc works, but in python 'starts to erase'
> > the '>>> ' prompt. In xterm instead of cyrilic letters I get spaces.
> > I wanted to enter a bug, but I don't know against what to. Looks like
> > backspace erases single bytes, while these letters consist of 2. Can
> > someone direct me and confirm it?
> >
>
> Both python and bash use readline to do line editing.
> 4.3-13 is the latest in rawhide but version 5.0 is available
> which seems to fix the issues you mention. Search for
> multibyte in: http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/CHANGES
>
Thanks, bug # 142265 entered:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=142265
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