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From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 15:46:29 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48199175.7060906@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080429103335.GD1473@1wt.eu>

Willy Tarreau wrote:
> In my opinion, the problem is that when I press "é", the system sends
> two chars to the bash, which itself sends two chars to the terminal,
> which only displays one and moves the cursor one step ahead. Then,
> pressing backspace once sends one backspace all along, resulting in
> the terminal blanking one displayed char, but the shell not being
> aware that only half of it was removed. But if you look at how
> control chars are handled, if you display ^H then press backspace,
> you remove all of it. It's the terminal which adjusts the position
> depending on the character length.

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 (i.e., inform the userspace that you are using UTF-8), 
unset LC_CTYPE and unset LC_ALL (so that they don't override $LANG), and problem 
solved.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-01  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-28 15:40 [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments Adrian Bunk
2008-04-28 23:05 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29  1:29   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-29  5:06     ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29  6:04       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-29  7:29       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-29  8:14         ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29  9:06           ` Helge Hafting
2008-04-29  9:33             ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 10:09             ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 10:10               ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 10:33                 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 10:34                   ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 22:12                     ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 22:15                       ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 23:05                         ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-01 20:18                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-01  9:46                   ` Alexander E. Patrakov [this message]
2008-04-29 19:33                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-29 10:42               ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-29 11:06                 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 11:27                   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-29 11:32                     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-29 20:18                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-30  9:15               ` Helge Hafting
2008-04-30 19:22                 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-30 19:42                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-29  9:43           ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-29 19:31           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-29 20:05             ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 20:09               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-09 12:48       ` David Kågedal
2008-04-29  9:01   ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29  9:19     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-29  9:34     ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29  9:41       ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 12:18 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-30  0:08 Samuel Thibault
2008-04-30  3:38 ` Chris Adams
2008-04-30  9:38 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-04-30 19:45   ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-30 19:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-03 23:50   ` Samuel Thibault
2008-05-04  8:55     ` Willy Tarreau

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