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Re: ksh93u+m locale issue with select statement

From Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.demon.nl>
Newsgroups comp.unix.shell
Subject Re: ksh93u+m locale issue with select statement
Date 2026-02-25 00:39 +0000
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Op 11-01-2026 om 04:51 schreef Janis Papanagnou:
> Kornshell doesn't seem to handle umlauts or other non-ASCII Unicode
> characters correctly with the 'select' statement;

The code for showing the menu is not aware of multibyte locales. Thanks for 
the report. I've fixed it for the next release. See:
https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/commit/18e4cbc1

> Observed in ksh version AJM 93u+m/1.0.8 2024-01-01. 

FYI, you're two point releases behind.

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ksh93u+m locale issue with select statement Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-01-11 05:51 +0100
  Re: ksh93u+m locale issue with select statement Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.demon.nl> - 2026-02-25 00:39 +0000
    Re: ksh93u+m locale issue with select statement Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-02-25 03:06 +0100
    Re: ksh93u+m locale issue with select statement Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2026-03-17 10:55 +0000
      Re: ksh93u+m locale issue with select statement Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2026-03-17 13:31 +0000
        Re: ksh93u+m locale issue with select statement Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2026-03-17 14:09 +0000

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