Re: [SOLVED; PEBKAC] Re: tmux refusing to do utf8

2011-04-16 Thread Karl Ferdinand Ebert
Hello Nicholas, I agree with you and will explain this to her. Also I find the reasoning of Tiago sound. On Friday 15 of April 2011 23:44:30 Nicholas Marriott wrote: > Hi > > I don't know about this because an empty variable is not the same as > being unset and I think it is confusing to treat

Re: [SOLVED; PEBKAC] Re: tmux refusing to do utf8

2011-04-15 Thread Nicholas Marriott
Hi I don't know about this because an empty variable is not the same as being unset and I think it is confusing to treat them the same. But maybe I'm just being pedantic, I can't really think of a case where having an empty LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE would be useful... On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:57:30PM

Re: [SOLVED; PEBKAC] Re: tmux refusing to do utf8

2011-04-15 Thread Karl Ferdinand Ebert
Hi, On Friday 15 of April 2011 01:19:10 Tiago Resende wrote: > I also figured out why it wasn't working for me without -u. My LC_ALL, > instead of being unset, was set to an empty string. So, tmux was > assuming I was utf8-less instead of going on to check LC_CTYPE and LANG. > In conclusion, plea

Re: [SOLVED; PEBKAC] Re: tmux refusing to do utf8

2011-04-14 Thread Tiago Resende
I also figured out why it wasn't working for me without -u. My LC_ALL, instead of being unset, was set to an empty string. So, tmux was assuming I was utf8-less instead of going on to check LC_CTYPE and LANG. In conclusion, please disregard all I said above. --

[SOLVED; PEBKAC] Re: tmux refusing to do utf8

2011-04-14 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 04:02:04PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > (04/14/2011 03:59 PM), Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > I did that, and greated a new window, and "set -w utf8" returns > > off, and after doing "set -w utf8 on" it still returns off. > > Well, it should, shouldn't it? "set -w utf8" doesn't

Re: tmux refusing to do utf8

2011-04-14 Thread Micah Cowan
(04/14/2011 03:59 PM), Robin Lee Powell wrote: > I did that, and greated a new window, and "set -w utf8" returns off, > and after doing "set -w utf8 on" it still returns off. Well, it should, shouldn't it? "set -w utf8" doesn't mean "show the value of the utf8 setting", it means "toggle the value

Re: tmux refusing to do utf8

2011-04-14 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 07:53:26PM -0300, Tiago Resende wrote: > On Thursday, 2011-04-14, at 15:25:38 -0700, Robin Lee Powell > wrote: > > I'm not, no; the man page seems to say that that's not actually > > required, that you can change these options on the fly. Which > > is why I was asking. > >

Re: tmux refusing to do utf8

2011-04-14 Thread Tiago Resende
On Thursday, 2011-04-14, at 15:25:38 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > I'm not, no; the man page seems to say that that's not actually > required, that you can change these options on the fly. Which is > why I was asking. Hm, I remember it being required. Or at least I remember not being able to d

Re: tmux refusing to do utf8

2011-04-14 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 07:22:14PM -0300, Tiago Resende wrote: > Are you running tmux with -u? The only reason I ask is because > just the other day I ran into this problem and took me quite a > while to figure it out. I usually alias tmux to tmux -u, so when I > didn't have my alias available, I c

Re: tmux refusing to do utf8

2011-04-14 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I'm not talking about my configuration at all; those were commands I was running live inside tmux against actual windows. -Robin On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:14:55AM +0200, Ton van den Heuvel wrote: > Are you sure you killed all tmux instances before adding the > window options to your tmux configu

tmux refusing to do utf8

2011-04-14 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I'm on gentoo, with manually-compiled tmux 1.4. I'm using putty from windows. I have things set to UTF8, and it worked fine under GNU screen in the same configuration. I'm having visible problems, like - showing up as a no entity box in man pages. When I run: set-window-option -g utf8 on n