linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:49:20 +0200
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

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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