Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy

[Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 18:50, David Starner wrote:
> If you're using a terminal that can't support UTF-8, you always have the 
> option of running
> something like GNU screen to translate the system charset to the terminal 
> charset.
> It seems more important to get a systemwide encoding working, then worry 
> about the
> minority who use physical terminals.

That is interesting advice.  I am not sure I understand exactly how it
would work though.  Would you just tell screen that all input is in
UTF-8?  It seems like this would not be true if the user has legacy
filenames, and they do something simple like 'ls'...