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has caused the Debian Bug report #407490,
regarding screen: Screen in login mode is not unicode-ready
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: screen
Version: 4.0.3-0.2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Screen's default login shell mode is -xRR. It would be awesome if unicode were
added to it, such that when screen is invoked as a shell, it would be -xURR.
Patch below:
478c478
< /* if this is a login screen, assume -RR */
---
> /* if this is a login screen, assume -UxRR */
487a488,491
> #ifdef UTF8 /* Having a unicode screen loginshell is wonderful */
> nwin_options.encoding = nwin_options.encoding == -1 ? UTF8 : 0;
> #endif
>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.7-grsec-nomods-aoe
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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.ds1-8 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:
screen/old_upgrade_prompt: false
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
Closing this as wontfix.
The request is to force login-shell mode to imply UTF-8 (-UxRR).
Current behaviour is to use login-shell mode (-xRR) and determine
encoding from locale unless -U is explicitly requested.
That is an intentional behaviour choice, and forcing UTF-8
unconditionally would
break non-UTF8 locale setups.
Thanks,
Peter Dey
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