On 2003-07-27 13:41+0200 Björn JACKE wrote:
> On 2003-07-27 at 12:40 +0200 Øyvind A. Holm sent off:
> > 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?
>
> attached you find a program by Gerd Krorr, which does this and an
> example how to use this in your shell init scripts.
Thank you for your answer. Running the utf8.c program in a regular
gnome-terminal vs "xterm -u8" works fine. It detects if UTF-8 is
available, and is by checking the return value able to set an
environment variable at login time which different scripts can base
their behaviour on.
Regards,
Øyvind
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<uniplex> if I wanted to do
wget -O /dev/null
http://www.sco.com/images/pdf/education/SCO_AEP_posterfiles.zip
in an endless loop?
<twkm> why?
<dufflebunk> while true; do wget .... ; done
<uniplex> whynot?
<twkm> i see.
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