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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:08:51 +0100
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments
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Willy Tarreau wrote:
> 3) if I enter Alt-196, I get a "Ä". Flushing the buffer shows that od
> got two bytes: c3 84.

Confirmed.

Try init=/bin/stty -a, that will show

-iutf8

So there is little wonder that canonical mode does not work as expected.

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.

Samuel