On 2003-07-27 20:11+0100 Markus Kuhn wrote: > Øyvind wrote: > > Now, if I log onto my machine with a non-UTF-8 terminal program, is > > it possible to detect if the terminal emulator understands UTF-8 and > > eventually can tell the script (by setting an environment variable) > > to convert the output to plain old latin1 instead? > > There are other solutions to your problem of using a non-UTF-8 > terminal emulator to log into a UTF-8 environment. You can try to use > programs such as "screen" or "luit" to convert the terminal character > set on the fly between the host application and the terminal. > > ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/screen/private/screen-3.9.9beta1.tar.gz > http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/luit/
A new and interesting way of addressing this problem. I can by looking at the design of especially luit think of some ways to implement proper terminal support. A good thing to dig a bit deeper into. Thank you for the tip. Regards, Øyvind --------------------- cat /dev/urandom >SCO -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
