Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:38:32 +0100 | From | Samuel Thibault <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments |
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Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> said: > >Try init=/bin/sh, from that shell run stty iutf8. Then things will work > >fine. The fix is thus just to make the VT's tty initial iutf8 setup > >follow vt.default_utf8. > > You may also need to select a UTF-8 locale (e.g. LANG="en_US.UTF-8") for > programs like bash to handle this correctly.
Yes of course, but here the purpose was _not_ programs like bash, but the canonical mode (i.e. programs like cat etc.), for which the LANG variable has no effect, only iutf8 has.
Samuel
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