#14733: pretty unicode banner
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Reporter: chapoton | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_info
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-5.11
Component: user interface | Resolution:
Keywords: banner, unicode | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers: Volker Braun
Authors: Frédéric Chapoton | Merged in:
Dependencies: #14559 | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by vbraun):
Given that Sage is gravitating towards UTF-8 encoded source files (and, by
extension, docstrings), I would argue that it is a feature that we make it
immediately and unambiguously clear to the user that his terminal does not
support unicode. There is no API to query the terminal whether it is
unicode capable, you essentially can only check it by displaying some non-
ascii characters. Also, even if you don't have a UTF-8 cabable terminal
you can still use Sage, only the banner looks funky.
In particular, nobody should be using the following any more at this time:
* rxvt (and various older *xvt clones) does not support unicode, it has
been forked into rxvt-unicode (a.k.a. urxvt).
* Eterm does not support unicode. Some distros (debian) apply an
unofficial patch, but your mileage may vary.
Plain xterm, urxvt, and gnome-terminal work for me.
Ssh will happily pass UTF-8 through, it is the terminal at the other end
that needs to be able to display it.
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