[mosh-users] Alternate character set support (line grpahics) with terminfo

[Florian Bruhin]

* Vincent Lefevre <vincent-mosh at vinc17.net> [2014-03-20 13:29:33 +0100]:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that mosh doesn't support the alternate character set
> for terminfo-based utilities:
> 
> In an xterm terminal:
> 
> $ tput smacs; echo "mq>"
> └─>
> 
> but if I run "mosh localhost":
> 
> $ tput smacs; echo "mq>"
> mq>
> 
> I'm under Debian/unstable, with mosh 1.2.4a-1+b1 Debian package.

That's a feature ;)

See http://mosh.mit.edu/#techinfo :

    Only Mosh will never get stuck in hieroglyphs when a nasty program
    writes to the terminal. (See Markus Kuhn's discussion of the
    relationship between ISO 2022 and UTF-8[0].)

    [0] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#term

Why would you need this anyways, when you can have Unicode?

Florian

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