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Re: Bug#847809: ITP: tcvt -- multicolumn virtual terminal



On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:20:33AM +0100, Adrien CLERC wrote:
> >From the main page:
> Multibyte encodings such as utf8 are not supported, because Python is buggy.
> 
> Is that still an issue? I highly doubt that a terminal application that
> doesn't support UTF8 is useful nowadays.

I would agree, especially since the default locale for Debian installations
is UTF-8 (iirc).

Looking (very briefly) into the situation, it would seem to be resolved if
the tool was ported to Python 3.

Ferenc, is that likely to happen?

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