Re: [dev] [st] Erasing UTF-8 characters in ed

From: Michael Reed <m.reed_AT_mykolab.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 00:44:22 -0400

Stty shows that iutf8 is enabled for me. I saw earlier in the thread you
verified your LC_ALL as being UTF-8, perhaps that or LANG is configured
on your filesystem but is not propogating to st due to some shell
configuration issue?

-- Michael Reed

On 08/03/2014 10:13 PM, Alexandre Niveau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 24/07/2014 23:52, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote:
>> Well, let me think. You press Backspace key (which generates ^H), and
>> your
>> configuration of stty says that erase is ^H, but then it seems that
>> it is
>> deleted only the last byte of the previous utf8 rune. This action is
>> performed by the kernel, so the first thing we have to discard is a
>> problem related with locales.
>
> After fiddling with st's code for some time, I finally realized that
> the problem could come from the way the tty was configured… And
> indeed, the command “stty iutf8” solved the problem.
>
> I hadn't thought of this because there was no such problem in the
> other terminals I tried — and for good reason: they have “stty iutf8”
> on by default! Couldn't st behave the same?
>
> I hope this could actually be useful for others. If it's not possible
> to have st automatically tell stty to use the iutf8 mode, then maybe
> it's worth a mention in the FAQ.
>
> -- A.N.
>
Received on Mon Aug 04 2014 - 06:44:22 CEST