8 bit clean bash

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From: Gisle Aas
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 09:08

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Bash is my favorite shell, despite its problems with handling of 8 bit
characters. We now have an almost 8 bit clean operating system, and it
is a pity to switch to tcsh each time I want to maniplulate files with
8 bit chars in their names.

I tried to hack bash to make it 8 bit clean.  The readline library was
no problem, but fixing it was not enough.  The big problem seams to be
the way quoting is handled in the subst.c source file.  I did't have
time to solve this, so I just gave up...

When do we get an official release of bash that is 8 bit clean?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!solnes.nr.no!aas
From: aas@solnes.nr.no (Gisle Aas)
Subject: 8 bit clean bash
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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 09:08:25 GMT
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