Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2
Severity: normal
The UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html>
says:
The tty driver of any POSIX system supports a "cooked" mode, in
which some primitive line editing functionality is available. In
order to allow the character-erase function (which is activated
when you press backspace) to work properly with UTF-8, someone
needs to tell it not count continuation bytes in the range
0x80-0xBF as characters, but to delete them as part of a UTF-8
multi-byte sequence. Since the kernel is ignorant of the libc
locale mechanics, another mechanism is needed to tell the tty
driver about UTF-8 being used. Linux kernel versions 2.6 or newer
support a bit IUTF8 in the c_iflag member variable of struct
termios. If it is set, the "cooked" mode line editor will treat
UTF-8 multi-byte sequences correctly. This mode can be set from
the command shell with "stty iutf8". Xterm and friends should set
this bit automatically when called in a UTF-8 locale.
But I get:
dixsept:~> stty iutf8
stty: invalid argument `iutf8'
Try `stty --help' for more information.
-- System Information:
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.10-20050517
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.29-1.0.1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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