Re: GNU screen now with UTF-8 support

[Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx>]

Markus Kuhn writes:

> The latest version now comes with UTF-8 support:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/screen/private/screen-3.9.9beta1.tar.gz
> 
> You can use it to run non-UTF-8 applications on a UTF-8 terminal and
> vice versa, as it translates the encoding between your terminal
> application and your real terminal.

Hmm, the UTF-8 support is not enabled by default, even in an UTF-8
locale. In order to get vim 6.0w to display an UTF-8 encoded file
correctly inside screen running inside an UTF-8 xterm in a UTF-8
locale, I had to 1. set the default UTF-8 mode to 'on' in my
$HOME/.screenrc, and 2. call screen with command line option "-U".

Furthermore I don't see any calls to character set converters (like
iconv()) in the code. Does this mean that all 'screen' has up to now
is ISO-8859-1 <--> UTF-8 conversion?

Bruno
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