Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:49:20 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments |
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:08:51AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Willy Tarreau wrote: > > 3) if I enter Alt-196, I get a "Ä". Flushing the buffer shows that od > > got two bytes: c3 84. > > Confirmed. > > Try init=/bin/stty -a, that will show > > -iutf8 > > So there is little wonder that canonical mode does not work as expected. > > 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.
Will try that on a more recent install. Mine's stty does not support this option. Your analysis makes quite a lot of sense, and such a fix would wipe part of my annoyances/anger with this recent change.
Thanks, Willy
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