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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments
Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> Well, I accidentally used a freshly installed laptop running mandriva 2008.
> I was typing in a terminal inside KDE (I don't know the program name, sort
> of an xterm, but with huge borders all around). I made a typo in a word and
> typed in a "é" (e acute). Pressing backspace to fix it showed me that I
> remove more chars than typed. I tried again. Pressing this letter 5 times,
> then 10 times backspace. I removed 5 chars from the prompt. I suspect that
> if I had used some chars with wider encoding (eg 4 bytes), I could have
> removed as many... Clearly those tools are not ready.
>

Presumably, this was konsole. konsole works fine with UTF-8 (I use it
that way every day); the most common cause of this kind of problems is
people explicitly clobbering the locale or charset class defaults in
their login scripts.

-hpa

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