Recent code to try and detect if a terminal supports UTF-8 by printing to it

fails spectacularly on (at least) sparc64, so disable it for now. Thanks to
naddy and Josh Elsasser for help and testing.
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Nicholas Marriott
2009-06-02 23:39:32 +00:00
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@ -109,13 +109,11 @@ flag is ignored.
Unlock the server.
.It Fl u
.Nm
attempts to guess if the terminal is likely to support UTF-8 by first checking
attempts to guess if the terminal is likely to support UTF-8 by checking
the
.Ev LANG
environment variable for the string "UTF-8", and then by - if the terminal
looks suitable - trying to print a UTF-8 character and measuring the cursor
movement.
These are not always successful: the
environment variable for the string "UTF-8".
This is not always correct: the
.Fl u
flag explicitly informs
.Nm