Unicode support in shell

Bernhard Fischer rep.nop at aon.at
Mon Oct 24 20:56:36 UTC 2005


On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:33:30PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:

>1) Should we include any interesting installable shell scripts with the 
>busybox source?  (For example, if somebody comes up with a unicode_start 
>script that uses busybox's loadkmap instead of loadkeys.)  Or should we just 
>stick to C applets (which implies writing some stuff in C that could just as 
>easily be done in shell.)

There is examples/ where at least a few scripts live which can be used
with busybox. As mentioned earlier this year by somebody, one could
think of setups where it is useful to just have applets and no
interpreters.




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