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Re: Detecting an UTF-8 capable terminal emulator

> Now, if I log onto my machine with a non-UTF-8 terminal program, is it
> possible to detect if the terminal emulator understands UTF-8 and
> eventually can tell the script (by setting an environment variable) to
> convert the output to plain old latin1 instead?

There are other solutions to your problem of using a non-UTF-8 terminal
emulator to log into a UTF-8 environment. You can try to use programs
such as "screen" or "luit" to convert the terminal character set on the
fly between the host application and the terminal.

ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/screen/private/screen-3.9.9beta1.tar.gz
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/luit/

Markus

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