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| author |  Keith Winstein <keithw@mit.edu> | 2012-04-14 16:39:07 -0400 |
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| committer | Keith Winstein <keithw@mit.edu> | 2012-04-14 16:56:48 -0400 |
| commit | 8f60f7ab05f6dfa34da4b88b379a1ad43c5dd636 (patch) | |
| tree | 58bfa14a1feacaba5b67e735fe930132f4dbda40 /man | |
| parent | 597756b846eef6cac285f0c870fbe9ed53364aff (diff) | |
Convey locale-related environment variables as backup, and nicer error.
Fixes #74.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/mosh-server.1 | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/mosh.1 | 12 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/mosh-server.1 b/man/mosh-server.1 index 43cc906..16d65d4 100644 --- a/man/mosh-server.1 +++ b/man/mosh-server.1 @@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ UDP port number to bind .B \-c \fICOLORS\fP Number of colors to advertise to applications through TERM (e.g. 8, 256) +.TP +.B \-l \fINAME=VALUE\fP +Locale-related environment variable to try as part of a fallback +environment, if the startup environment does not specify a character +set of UTF-8. + .SH EXAMPLE .nf @@ -64,6 +64,18 @@ pass between client and server. By default, \fBmosh\fP uses the ports between 60000 and 61000, but allows the user to request a particular UDP port instead. +\fBmosh\fP will do its best to arrange a UTF-8 character set locale on +the client and server. The client must have locale-related environment +variables that specify UTF-8. \fBmosh\fP will pass these client +variables to the \fBmosh-server\fP on its command line, but in most +cases they will not need to be used. \fBmosh-server\fP first attempts +to use its own locale-related environment variables, which come from +the system default configuration (sometimes /etc/default/locale) or +from having been passed over the SSH connection. But if these +variables don't call for the use of UTF-8, \fBmosh-server\fP will +apply the locale-related environment variables from the client and try +again. + .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \fIcommand\fP |