libedit lacks utf-8 support
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
libedit (Debian) |
Fix Released
|
Unknown
|
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libedit (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
php5 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
php5-cli have a Readline extension.
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PHP on Ubuntu is compiled using the libedit library instead of GNU Readline.
readline() wont accept some characters such as åäö.
Test case: $ php -r "readline('>');"
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: php5-cli 5.3.5-1ubuntu7.2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 8b5778459c1f0a1
CheckboxSystem: 4ed15c40009aa6f
Date: Wed Jul 27 03:18:24 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: php5
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-28 (120 days ago)
description: | updated |
Changed in libedit (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in libedit (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in libedit (Debian): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Hi Fred! Thanks for taking the time to file this bug in Ubuntu. This would appear to be a problem with libedit, not PHP, so I'm reassigning it as such. Its likely that adding UTF-8 functionality to libedit is a new feature, so setting importance to Wishlist.