[COLUG] UTF-8 Goobers-up Screen

[Rob Funk]

Josh wrote:
> Whenever I encounter UTF-8 characters (with accent marks), the Screen
> gets goobered up and, for example, scrolls up by a few lines.  (This is
> fun in Pine, as I won't know which message I'm looking at or deleting.)

Try hitting control-L to redraw the screen.

> Without using Screen, everything works OK.  Since I thought it might be
> a terminal setting, I checked; when I just use pine, TERM is set to
> XTerm. So, I ran screen and set the terminal type to XTerm, and get the
> same results.

Try running screen with the -U option.

Check the screen man page for "encoding" (or "defencoding") to set that by 
default.

It may also be useful to check the output of the "locale" command, and 
possibly change some environment variables if you don't want UTF-8.

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