Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:37:14 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: JFS default behavior |
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jw schultz wrote: > Your concrete example is a good one. Where did that > filename come from? It would seem to have come from the > keyboard via a tty (or simulator) which also had to display > it. I'd say this is an argument for the terminal to display > UTF-8 and convert intput into UTF-8. That is something that > seems to be not consistantly done as yet. Ultimately it > seems to be a responsiblity of the user interface, whether > tty or GUI. Until that happens the shells might be able to > fill the gap, however poorly.
Many terminals will not ever display UTF-8. Think: all the serial terminals.
This is why I think "stty utf8" or something along those lines would be useful. The terminal itself doesn't have to talk UTF-8; however, the applications talking with /dev/tty would always see UTF-8.
That seems to solve most of the practical user interface problems of the command line, in one single clean place.
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