Hello, On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:38:12AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > When entering high-ascii characters at the login prompt (usually by > mistake), such as "é", and then hitting Backspace to remove them, > they're not erased at the prompt...and, when entering the correct > login and validating, login switched the terminal to all-caps.
Well, I don't have an all caps afterwards. I just checked (on Sarge)
an get the following:
a) Enter a non-ASCII character (like ä)
b) Erase it. Now the "ä" remains, but two white blocks, sepearted by
space are added on the prompt
c) Presse Enter once
d) Login using a valid login/password
e) Start vim
f) Now those characters are replaced (!) by other characters. I have,
e.g., ä->d ö->v ü->| (I can create a complete list, if it helps).
g) Quit vim, type reset
h) Everything is back to normal.
Even before entering "reset", äöü are correct on the shell (bash)
prompt. On the login prompt I observe to behaviours:
a) "ä" (or another non-ASCII character) is entered, but not erased
before pressing enter. In this case, on the next "login"-prompt
(same virtual terminal, of course), "ä" is replaced by "d" (and
the same for the other ones). But in this case, vim displays "ä"
as well.
b) "ä" (or another non-ASCII character) is entered, but it *is* erased
(although the visual artefacts as described above appear), then on
the next login prompt "ä" remains "ä". In this case (as described
above) "ä" becomes "d" in vim, until "reset" is entered.
I have not (yet) switched to UTF, if that is important.
When I run stty -a in a "clean" shell vs. in a "broken" shell (in the
sequence above, before running reset) I get the following differences:
claen: broken:
====== =======
-parenb -parodd cs8 parenb -parodd cs7
-inpck -istrip inpck istrip
If you need more/other info, please tell me which. I can also create a
table of all "mixed up" characters in the broken case, if that is
necessary.
> This happens in the Linux console. Nothing bad happens in a terminal,
> eitheer UTF-8 or ISO....
Haven't tried a terminal yet. Only linux console.
Greetings
Helge
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