Re: Display UTF-8 character \u2520

[Marcin Cieslak]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2024, Albaro Pereyra wrote:

> Thanks for confirming it can be done.  Now how can I set the settings in
> .screenrc.  I do use screen-color because I like the colors I hope this
> does not interfere with the character.

LANG is not something you can set in ".screenrc". It is a so-called
environment variable like PATH, TERM and others. The variables need
to be usually set BEFORE the program starts, for example before
you start screen (not "screen -r").

You can set it in your shell before running screen. For example for
Bourne-like shells:

LANG="pl_PL.UTF-8"
export LANG

"LANG" and various variables with names starting "LC_..." may control what
some programs understand as a "character". You may try this to see
the current values:

env | grep -E '^(LANG|LC_)'

What I would do is to stop using custom terminal definition in .screenrc
and start screen with minimal settings (maybe no config file at all) and
see if it works better, even if it means no colors in the beginning.

I am also not convinced I know anything about WSL2 and its quirks, including
the terminal emulators used on Windows, so you are on your own here.

Marcin

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