Bug 220009

Summary: stty iutf8 not supported
Product: Base System Reporter: Peter Backes <rtc>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: New ---    
Severity: Affects Many People CC: cem, egor, grahamperrin, trasz
Priority: ---    
Version: CURRENT   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Peter Backes 2017-06-15 11:43:24 UTC 
Linux has a stty setting iutf8. This is necessary for utf-8 locales for the following reason:

When you enter a non-us-ascii utf-8 character in canonical mode (for example, when cat > file is run on the shell command line) it will be two or more bytes long. If you now hit the erase key (ie., backspace) only one byte will be deleted from the input buffer. For example, if you input äü and hit backspace, the input buffer will now contain two bytes of utf-8 code for ä and the first byte of the utf-8 code for ü, for a total of three bytes, which are invalid.

The iutf8 flag tells the terminal that the input is in utf8 and that the erase key in canonical mode should erase all bytes of the rightmost character.

FreeBSD should support iutf8 so that canonical mode works fine with utf8 locales.
Comment 1 Egor Kuzmichev 2020-01-31 01:10:44 UTC 
(In reply to Peter Backes from comment #0)
What is the current status of the problem?
Comment 2 Edward Tomasz Napierala freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2024-03-27 13:28:58 UTC 
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44525