Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API

Matthew Kirkwood
2004-02-17T21:26:03Z

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> No, I think hacking the terminal I/O is the best bet here. Then _all_
> programs which currently work with UTF-8 terminals, which is rapidly
> becoming most of them, will work the same with both kinds of terminal,
> and the illusion of perfection will be complete and beautiful.

Yep. A charset-translating tty proxy, a little like screen
or detachtty is what you want. I wonder if there's an SSH
client or server which can do that.

Matthew.