Re: [screen-devel] Hardcopy uses ISO-8859-1

[Alex Naumov]

Hello Simon,

yes, I can reproduce it.

Can you test it again, but using "unicode++" git-branch? It works for
me. I get "UTF-8 Unicode text" twice.
It seems we need to merge it now.


On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Simon Ruderich <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 04:17:20PM +0100, Alex Naumov wrote:
>> Hello Simon,
>>
>> we have UTF-8 mode for GNU screen. Use "-U" command-line option for that.
>> You can also add “defutf8 on” in your ~/.screenrc.
>>
>> If it doesn't work for you, post about your version and OS.
>
> Hello Alex,
>
> Neither -U nor defutf8 nor both work.
>
> Debian Sid with GNU screen 4.3.1-2 (Screen version 4.03.01 (GNU)
> 28-Jun-15):
>
>     $ locale
>     LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>     LANGUAGE=
>     LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_COLLATE=C
>     LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_ALL=
>     $ cat screenrc
>     defutf8 on
>
>     $ screen -U c screenrc
>
>     [ inside screen ]
>
>     $ cat test
>     äöüß
>     $ file test
>     test: UTF-8 Unicode text
>
>     ^a:hardcopy copy
>
>     $ file copy
>     copy: ISO-8859 text
>
> The hardcopy file is not in UTF-8 as I would've expected, but
> instead ISO-8859-1.
>
> Same result with just the above locale and no -U nor defutf8.
>
> Regards
> Simon
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