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:
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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.
> ----------------------------
>
>
> 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?

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