Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:31:01 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments |
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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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