Comment 6 for bug 1360419
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| Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail) wrote | #6 |
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Hi Ivan,
The feature of setting iutf8 was implemented in gnome-terminal 10 years ago and I've been happily using it ever since. There might be a bug of course, it would be nice to investigate further why it's not set for you. (At this moment I have no idea how it could be wrong for you.)
Your app is not the right place for such a workaround. There are thousands of utilities similar to yours (e.g. just type "cat" and you'll see the same problem with backspace), and dozens of ways a terminal can be configured incorrectly, it's not feasible for every utility to try to fix every possible broken setting. Any app running in a terminal should assume that the terminal is set up properly.
If you can't figure out what's wrong with your gnome-terminal, I recommend to place something like
if [ -t 0 -a "$(locale charmap)" = "UTF-8" ]; then stty iutf8; fi
in your .bashrc as a workaround, then you're done with this for all the applications, and don't pollute your utility with something that really doesn't belong there.