Hi, On 24/07/2014 23:52, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote:
Well, let me think. You press Backspace key (which generates ^H), and your configuration of stty says that erase is ^H, but then it seems that it is deleted only the last byte of the previous utf8 rune. This action is performed by the kernel, so the first thing we have to discard is a problem related with locales.
After fiddling with st's code for some time, I finally realized that the problem could come from the way the tty was configured… And indeed, the command “stty iutf8” solved the problem.
I hadn't thought of this because there was no such problem in the other terminals I tried — and for good reason: they have “stty iutf8” on by default! Couldn't st behave the same?
I hope this could actually be useful for others. If it's not possible to have st automatically tell stty to use the iutf8 mode, then maybe it's worth a mention in the FAQ.
-- A.N.
