[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#654225: zsh: Multibyte fails when $LANG.utf variable is not set

[Frank Terbeck]

Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
[...]
> What you are missing is that you never once tried the combination setting
> I described as causing problem. Please try to set a non-utf8 _country_

I'd be surprised to see different results with `de_DE' and `POSIX'.

> locale for the LANG variable together with a utf8 locale for the LC_ALL
> variable. E.g. at your zsh prompt:
>
>    export LANG=de_DE
>    export LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8
>    
> type in e.g. an umlaut character, type backspace to delete it and notice
> that it is deleted piecemeal by octet. It should happen to you too!

It doesn't. For me, zsh works as expected, even with that combination.

[...]
> This combination
>
>    export LANG=
>    export LC_ALL=da_DK.utf8
>
> is okay. So it is the specific combination of a non-utf8 country locale
> for LANG and a utf8 country locale for LC_ALL that is at fault.

I can't reproduce this yet. I'll try to replicate your system more
closely this afternoon...

Regards, Frank