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From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org>
To: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Add multi-byte support
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 03:50:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f678ac38331e254cfbeca82e9701966ea6b6057.camel@scientia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ba1332c0-2029-4171-89b0-b2e6b33449d6@app.fastmail.com>

On Sat, 2024-04-27 at 21:35 -0400, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> What's your point?  Do you think dash should not acquire multibyte
> support, to avoid breaking scripts that make such assumptions?

No, as I've said I have nothing against the functionality per se, but
just wanted to give a heads up that this might have some not
immediately obvious consequences.

Maybe it makes sense to add some big fat warning in a NEWS or changelog
file, telling people that their scripts may now run under another
locale and perhaps also giving some explanation on possible subtle
consequences?


Cheers,
Chris.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-28  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-27 11:03 [PATCH 0/8] Add multi-byte support Herbert Xu
2024-04-16 10:03 ` [PATCH 1/8] shell: Call setlocale Herbert Xu
2024-04-16 10:38 ` [PATCH 2/8] shell: Use strcoll instead of strcmp where applicable Herbert Xu
2024-04-16 23:13 ` [PATCH 3/8] expand: Count multi-byte characters for VSLENGTH Herbert Xu
2024-04-18  8:59 ` [PATCH 4/8] expand: Process multi-byte characters in subevalvar Herbert Xu
2024-04-20 13:46 ` [PATCH 5/8] expand: Process multi-byte characters in expmeta Herbert Xu
2024-04-23 11:17 ` [PATCH 6/8] expand: Support multi-byte characters during field splitting Herbert Xu
2024-04-27  8:15 ` [PATCH 7/8] input: Allow MB_LEN_MAX calls to pungetc Herbert Xu
2024-04-27  8:41 ` [PATCH 8/8] parser: Add support for multi-byte characters Herbert Xu
2024-04-27 21:31 ` [PATCH 0/8] Add multi-byte support Christoph Anton Mitterer
2024-04-28  0:49   ` Herbert Xu
2024-04-28  1:19     ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2024-04-28  1:35       ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-04-28  1:50         ` Christoph Anton Mitterer [this message]
2024-04-28  2:03       ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2024-04-28 14:50     ` Harald van Dijk
2024-04-29 13:12       ` Herbert Xu

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