Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:05:05 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments |
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:31:01PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > >Well, I accidentally used a freshly installed laptop running mandriva 2008. > >I was typing in a terminal inside KDE (I don't know the program name, sort > >of an xterm, but with huge borders all around). I made a typo in a word and > >typed in a "é" (e acute). Pressing backspace to fix it showed me that I > >remove more chars than typed. I tried again. Pressing this letter 5 times, > >then 10 times backspace. I removed 5 chars from the prompt. I suspect that > >if I had used some chars with wider encoding (eg 4 bytes), I could have > >removed as many... Clearly those tools are not ready. > > > > Presumably, this was konsole.
Possible. It was the one you get by clicking on a terminal icon. Huuhhh what an horror, I'm discussing icons and GUIs on LKML. I must take my meds :-)
> konsole works fine with UTF-8 (I use it > that way every day); the most common cause of this kind of problems is > people explicitly clobbering the locale or charset class defaults in > their login scripts.
I really doubt the miss would have done this. Or someone would have done it for her which I really doubt in such a small time frame after a fresh install from the day before. I will investigate though.
Willy
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