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=== [[International Characters Support]] ===
=== [[International Characters Support]] ===


# Does GNU Readline support Unicode input?  What are the limiting factors to support Unicode? -- If correctly configured, reasonably recent versions of GNU readline support UTF-8 if LC_CTYPE is set to a UTF-8 locale. Versions 6.1 and newer versions should be working if the user didn't override "meta-flag", "convert-meta", or "output-meta" (maybe also others). Having said so: Setting LC_CTYPE to a UTF-8 locale is invalid on Windows.
# Does GNU Readline support Unicode input?  What are the limiting factors to support Unicode?
# Can the open bugs ({{bug|56173}} (probably unrelated), {{bug|47571}} (probably resolved), {{bug|43099}} (probably resolved)) be resolved with the new solution?
#* '''MAYBE.''' If correctly configured, reasonably recent versions of GNU readline support 8bit characters if LC_CTYPE is set to a UTF-8 locale. Versions 6.1 and newer versions should be working if the user didn't override "meta-flag", "convert-meta", or "output-meta" (maybe also others). It is unclear from the documentation whether this also means support for all UTF-8 characters (including multibyte characters). But bash uses readline and it supports UTF-8. So it should be possible.
#* '''MAYBE.''' Setting LC_CTYPE to a UTF-8 locale is invalid on Windows but we could set the necessary flags manually.
#** Can we manage this problem in current MXE builds?
# Can the open bugs be resolved with the new solution?
#* {{bug|56173}} (probably unrelated)
#* {{bug|47571}} (probably resolved)
#* {{bug|43099}} (probably resolved)


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