If we know the terminal outside tmux is not UTF-8, replace UTF-8 in

error messages and whatnot with underscores the same as we do when we
draw UTF-8 characters as part of the screen.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/cmd-queue.c b/cmd-queue.c
index ff8c69cb..5015981c 100644
--- a/cmd-queue.c
+++ b/cmd-queue.c
@@ -69,14 +69,21 @@ cmdq_print(struct cmd_q *cmdq, const char *fmt, ...)
 	struct client	*c = cmdq->client;
 	struct window	*w;
 	va_list		 ap;
+	char		*tmp, *msg;
 
 	va_start(ap, fmt);
 
 	if (c == NULL)
 		/* nothing */;
 	else if (c->session == NULL || (c->flags & CLIENT_CONTROL)) {
-		evbuffer_add_vprintf(c->stdout_data, fmt, ap);
-
+		if (~c->flags & CLIENT_UTF8) {
+			vasprintf(&tmp, fmt, ap);
+			msg = utf8_sanitize(tmp);
+			free(tmp);
+			evbuffer_add(c->stdout_data, msg, strlen(msg));
+			free(msg);
+		} else
+			evbuffer_add_vprintf(c->stdout_data, fmt, ap);
 		evbuffer_add(c->stdout_data, "\n", 1);
 		server_push_stdout(c);
 	} else {
@@ -101,6 +108,7 @@ cmdq_error(struct cmd_q *cmdq, const char *fmt, ...)
 	va_list		 ap;
 	char		*msg;
 	size_t		 msglen;
+	char		*tmp;
 
 	va_start(ap, fmt);
 	msglen = xvasprintf(&msg, fmt, ap);
@@ -109,9 +117,14 @@ cmdq_error(struct cmd_q *cmdq, const char *fmt, ...)
 	if (c == NULL)
 		cfg_add_cause("%s:%u: %s", cmd->file, cmd->line, msg);
 	else if (c->session == NULL || (c->flags & CLIENT_CONTROL)) {
+		if (~c->flags & CLIENT_UTF8) {
+			tmp = msg;
+			msg = utf8_sanitize(tmp);
+			free(tmp);
+			msglen = strlen(msg);
+		}
 		evbuffer_add(c->stderr_data, msg, msglen);
 		evbuffer_add(c->stderr_data, "\n", 1);
-
 		server_push_stderr(c);
 		c->retval = 1;
 	} else {