I guess I missed the part where this thread lead to luit being removed post
7.8:
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revision 1.6
date: 2025/11/16 19:02:33; author: matthieu; state: dead; lines: +0 -0;
commitid: WvvKs4N8tZSposfc;
Remove luit. Already disabled in xterm and unlinked from the build.
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I just wanted to say I have a niche use for luit.
I use luit every time I connect to ancient unix/linux/bsd versions. To make
sure my keyboard doesn't leak UTF-8 codes into systems that cannot deal with
it, but can do 8 bits encodings.
like:
luit -encoding 'ISO8859-1' telnet host
luit -encoding 'ISO8859-1' plink -1 host
Anyway, that's just me and my odd hobbies and French language. Definitively
not a critical usage.
I'll just have to figure out a recipe to compile it on my own from
-rOPENBSD_7_8 sources.
Regards
On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 06:09:34PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
> > ----- Forwarded message from John McCue <[email protected]> -----
> > > Workaround:
> > > # ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/luit /usr/bin
> > >
> > > But the bug prolly ought to be fixed.
> >
> > That works :) But I found having something like this in
> > ~/.xsessions works too, this avoids playing with base.
> >
> > export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
>
>
> https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#locales
>
