Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API

[Matthew Kirkwood]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> No, I think hacking the terminal I/O is the best bet here.  Then _all_
> programs which currently work with UTF-8 terminals, which is rapidly
> becoming most of them, will work the same with both kinds of terminal,
> and the illusion of perfection will be complete and beautiful.

Yep.  A charset-translating tty proxy, a little like screen
or detachtty is what you want.  I wonder if there's an SSH
client or server which can do that.

Matthew.
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