Re: hot change screens locale

[Michael Parson]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, David Niklas wrote:

> Hello,
> I changed my locale from C to en_US.utf8. All my applications which I
> have running under screen have accepted the new encoding upon restart.
> But screen, which would be a pain to restart at this point, has not
> detected this.
> Is there a way to tell screen that my locale has changed without a
> restart?

Does

:utf8 on on

do what you want?

ftmp:

utf8 [on|off [on|off]]

Change the encoding used in the current window. If utf8 is enabled,
the strings sent to the window will be UTF-8 encoded and vice versa.
Omitting the parameter toggles the setting. If a second parameter is
given, the display's encoding is also changed (this should rather be
done with screen's "-U" option).  See also "defutf8", which changes the
default setting of a new window.

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Michael Parson
Austin, TX
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