On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 07:02:45PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Going through some old bug reports… > > On 2004-05-31 20:04 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Mon, 31 May 2004, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > >> Are there really no other terminals which have a capability string to > >> enter or exit UTF-8 mode? I suppose for xterm, you have to start it in > >> UTF-8 mode or not. So maybe the Linux terminal really is unique in > >> this respect. > > > > xterm can enter/exit via escape sequence, but a reset doesn't change the > > UTF-8 mode. > > Which would be rather undesirable anyway, at least in my opinion. > > It also seems that the kernel's behavior (switching out of UTF-8 mode > when it receives a reset sequence) which caused the initial complaint > has changed, probably many years ago. > > At least I am unable to reproduce the problem here with a 5.10 kernel > and am inclined to just close the bug.
It was fixed in 2007 (as a side-effect of a configuration parameter that was removed). See the "default_utf8" variable and reset_terminal() in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2e8ecb9db0bcc19e1cc8bb51e9252fe6a86a9863 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/77bf2bab91e4e7df361963451c7b9a803516438c Before that change, it was not initialized (and false), so a \Ec would revert it to Latin-1. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net
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