Re: [screen-devel] Hardcopy uses ISO-8859-1

[Alex Naumov]

Hello Simon,

we have UTF-8 mode for GNU screen. Use "-U" command-line option for that.
You can also add “defutf8 on” in your ~/.screenrc.

If it doesn't work for you, post about your version and OS.

Regards,
Alex

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Simon Ruderich <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using GNU screen's hardcopy function to dump the current
> screen content to a file. However the resulting file is encoded
> in ISO-8859-1 although my current locale is UTF-8. This causes
> corruption for characters which are not representable in
> ISO-8859-1.
>
> Is this expected behavior and would it be possible to change this
> to UTF-8?
>
> Regards
> Simon
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