Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Wed Apr 30 2008 - 05:40:06 EST


Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> >Try init=/bin/sh, from that shell run stty iutf8. Then things will work
> >fine. The fix is thus just to make the VT's tty initial iutf8 setup
> >follow vt.default_utf8.
>
> You may also need to select a UTF-8 locale (e.g. LANG="en_US.UTF-8") for
> programs like bash to handle this correctly.

Yes of course, but here the purpose was _not_ programs like bash, but
the canonical mode (i.e. programs like cat etc.), for which the LANG
variable has no effect, only iutf8 has.

Samuel
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