8 bit clean bash

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1 total messages Started by Gisle Aas Tue, 11 Aug 1992 09:08

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Author: 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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