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authorNicholas Marriott <nicholas.marriott@gmail.com>2009-07-01 19:49:56 +0000
committerNicholas Marriott <nicholas.marriott@gmail.com>2009-07-01 19:49:56 +0000
commit81010f52db8e4e7e6e1f232d25bb1ca1bf1a4a63 (patch)
tree77ebce09ac9c59353bc46c0503d8b9ca411ac3cb /FAQ
parent22d1b9412e52c98cbdf52a3a5185a416c6d26c64 (diff)
Update with new UTF-8 environment variable information for 0.9.
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@@ -87,9 +87,10 @@ for each tmux window or globally by setting the "utf8" flag:
setw -g utf8 on
-And, as it is not possible to automatically detect that a terminal is UTF-8
-capable, tmux must be told by passing the -u flag when creating or
-attaching a client to a tmux session:
+As of release 0.9, tmux attempts to autodetect a UTF-8-capable terminal by
+checking the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG environment variables. list-clients may
+be used to check if this is detected correctly; if not, the -u command-line
+flag may be specified when creating or attaching a client to a tmux session:
$ tmux -u new
@@ -193,4 +194,4 @@ terminal in use (set through TERM) request it. PuTTY can be told to ignore such
requests: in the configuration window under Terminal -> Features, check the
"Disable remote-controlled terminal resizing" box.
-$Id: FAQ,v 1.22 2009-05-14 18:43:02 nicm Exp $
+$Id: FAQ,v 1.23 2009-07-01 19:49:56 nicm Exp $