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

From: Alexandre Niveau <alexandre.niveau_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:59:33 +0200

Hi,

On 04/08/2014 06:44, Michael Reed wrote:
> 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?

I'm not sure that it's supposed to propagate automatically to st: “man
stty” does not mention the locale, and urxvt uses termios(3) to set
iutf8 directly from the source code. xterm has several related options
(-lc to adapt the encoding to the locale used, -u8 to force UTF-8, and
others). I glanced through the source code for lxterminal but I did not
find anything.

st does not use termios(3), and does not seem to do anything special
depending on the locale encoding. I'm certainly missing something,
because I don't understand how you can have iutf8 enabled in st by default!


On 04/08/2014 11:11, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote:
> And now, I can see in stty(1) that there is no iutf8 in OpenBSD.

Yes, I saw after I had sent my message that iutf8 is not POSIX. Does the
erase character work correctly with multi-byte characters in cat or ed
on your OpenBSD machine?

-- A.N.
Received on Mon Aug 04 2014 - 16:59:33 CEST