I live in Poland, and we have some accented characters - . Due to various reasons I resurrected talk usage on my server, which works great, but I wasn't able to figure out how to make it work with accents.On both ends of talk I have UTF-8 based locale (en_US.UTF-8), and Polish characters work great in everything - bash, vim, mutt, slrn, everything, but talk.What is the reason of the problem, and how could it be solved?I'm using it on Debian testing, and have tried talk/utalk/inetutils-talk, and none of them seems to support unicode/utf8.What can be done to achieve talk with full UTF8 support?
Unicode support in talk?
unicode
indeed for those old programs there is little hope to see them ported to unicode (I have a hard time finding a package to test :) ).As Gilles said, luit is the pragmatic answer.I used it some time ago for another 8bit only program.define a bash alias like this:alias talk='LC_ALL=pl_PL.ISO-8859-2 luit -- talk'you need luit installed, and the proper 8bit locale too.you can also use talk='luit -encoding 8859-2 -- talk' if you don't have the 8bit locale.