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[tlug] Re: Piping stderr?



>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Fabian <mfabian@example.com> writes:

    Mike> But as zsh doesn't support any multibyte encodings yet and I
    Mike> don't know of any patches to add multibyte support to zsh, I
    Mike> prefer to use a bash patched for multibyte (including UTF-8)
    Mike> support.

Err, why should a shell "support" multibyte encodings?  Make it 8-bit
clean, for shell syntax use ASCII (sorry), for localization of string
data, use an EUC variant, for multilingualization, use UTF-8.  Almost
everything else can be put off to the terminal and/or external
commands, no?

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