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I'm looking for a line editor (something like GNU readline) that I can use
in my application, and that works in different locales (primarily with
ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8, but if that works I assume everything else works as
well). GNU readline currently doesn't work in multibyte locales: erasing
multibyte characters gives the wrong result, and that makes it quite
unusable for my application.

I haven't found anything searching the web, does anyone know where I
should look? I only need very basic editing: erasing characters, moving
the cursor, etc., not all the features provided by GNU readline.

It shouldn't be hard to implement, so someone must have done this already.

Regards // Fredrik Roubert

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http://www.df.lth.se/~roubert/         SE-222 40 Lund

Quote:>I'm looking for a line editor (something like GNU readline) that I can use
>in my application, and that works in different locales (primarily with
>ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8,
>It shouldn't be hard to implement, so someone must have done this already.

actually it's very hard.

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okay, have a sig then

Even if it doesn't help me right now, it sounds like great news. Do you
have any idea when this next release will come?

In the meantime I've implemented a very basic (500 lines of C code)
readline replacement that works with multibyte and wide characters.

(So if someone else needs that before the next readline release, just send
me an email.)

Regards // Fredrik Roubert

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http://www.df.lth.se/~roubert/         SE-222 40 Lund

Quote:>> It shouldn't be hard to implement, so someone must have done this
>> already.

> actually it's very hard.

Actually, it was quite simple.

Regards // Fredrik Roubert

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http://www.df.lth.se/~roubert/         SE-222 40 Lund