Re: JFS default behavior

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Btw, from the screen man-page it appears that screen is not able to do 
> that either. You can put screen into utf-8 mode, but it sounds like it 
> just means that it passes UTF-8 through, not that it does any translation 
> from "latin1 vt100 to utf-8".

Screen works nicely.  Do this:

    echo 'defutf8 on' >> ~/.screenrc

Then screen presents a UTF-8 interface to the shell and other
programs, regardless of what kind of terminal you connect from :)

(It's a bit overkill, no actually it's a lot overkill, and you have the
annoyance of screen intercepting at least one commonly used editing key.)

(Just remember to set the LANG environment variable to include
".UTF-8" so that screen-oriented programs know to display properly.  I
do it automatically using a script which queries the current terminal,
to workaround ssh not forwarding LANG).

> I think there are a few editors that actually do ("mined" looks like it 
> should do it).

Emacs does, of course.

-- Jamie