Re: Multibyte characters in the Hardstatus line

[Micah Cowan]

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Wang, Roger wrote (way back in April):
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I used the attached patch so the utf8 hardstatus would display
> correctly in my xterm titlebar. Is it ok or how could I improve it?

Hi Roger, sorry this response is so long past your original post.

The patch you provided doesn't work for me; I used a config file with:

  hardstatus alwayslastline "γρεεκ"   ;)

but it still displayed garbled for me, even with the patch. I suppose
maybe it was intended only for hardstatus values received via escape
sequences?

However, even if it had worked, I don't think it would have done the
right thing with multiple displays with varying encodings (say, one with
UTF-8, another with ISO 8859-7). That's important for screen, and is a
large part of the reason that Micha stated that a proper fix would not
be simple.

(The original post with patch attached is at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2009-04/msg00011.html)

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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