moving to ports@ On 2026-02-09, Hugo Villeneuve-Lapointe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I guess I missed the part where this thread lead to luit being removed post > 7.8: > > ---------------------------- > 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. > ---------------------------- > > > 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.
It looks easy enough to add to ports. Does this work for you?
luit.tgz
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