On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 18:50, David Starner wrote: > If you're using a terminal that can't support UTF-8, you always have the > option of running > something like GNU screen to translate the system charset to the terminal > charset. > It seems more important to get a systemwide encoding working, then worry > about the > minority who use physical terminals.
That is interesting advice. I am not sure I understand exactly how it would work though. Would you just tell screen that all input is in UTF-8? It seems like this would not be true if the user has legacy filenames, and they do something simple like 'ls'...
