Your message dated Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:25:04 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#407584: screen should assume -U if locale is a .UTF-8
has caused the Debian Bug report #407584,
regarding screen should assume -U if locale is a .UTF-8
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Package: screen
Version: 4.0.3-0.2
Severity: wishlist
screen supports UTF-8 great if -U is used. However, it must be specified
on the command line even if the current locale is a .UTF-8 type (e.g.
en_US.UTF-8, etc).
It would be more appropriate for screen to check the locale, and if it's
anything.UTF-8 then it should automatically go into UTF-8 mode.
The -U option would still be useful for forcing UTF-8 mode regardless
of locale; it could probably be extended to have an extra option to turn
UTF-8 off unconditionally in case there are problems. For instance, -U
to turn it always on, -u to turn it always off, and if neither is given,
it's detected from the locale.
If you think this would be useful but need some help implementing it, I
would be happy to provide a patch, as it's pretty simple to do a locale
check if you know how. =)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages screen depends on:
ii base-passwd 3.5.11 Debian base system master password
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii passwd 1:4.0.18.1-6 change and administer password and
screen recommends no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
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Version: 4.0.3-14
Hi Wesley,
Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> screen supports UTF-8 great if -U is used. However, it must be specified
> on the command line even if the current locale is a .UTF-8 type (e.g.
> en_US.UTF-8, etc).
>
> It would be more appropriate for screen to check the locale, and if it's
> anything.UTF-8 then it should automatically go into UTF-8 mode.
Despite there's no upstream version in between, this seems to be fixed
in at latest Debian Squeeze's version of screen, 4.0.3-14. The
following three commands work as expected:
env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 screen -c /dev/null -> UTF-8 Support
env LANG=en_US screen -c /dev/null -> No UTF-8 Support
env LANG=en_US screen -c /dev/null -U -> UTF-8 Support
Closing this bug herewith accordingly.
Regards, Axel
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