From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: In GNU screen 3.9.11, the following option is present: -U Tell screen to use UTF-8 encoding. However, in Red Hat 8.0, this option is removed. Why? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Invoke screen with the -U option. Actual Results: Error: Unknown option -U Expected Results: I want to tell screen that my terminal sends/receives UTF-8 codes. If the behaviour is correct could you recommend another method to connect to a legacy Red Hat system (not running UTF-8) from a Red Hat 8.0 UTF-8 system? (Not vice versa, I did try that.) Additional info:
Screen's UTF-8 support is buggy (as of 3.9.11), so we don't compile it with UTF-8 support. I'm not sure what exactly you're trying to accomplish; please clarify for me. It could be that the answer to your problem is simply to connect via ssh to the remote host (the legacy machine) and running screen on it through your ssh connection, rather than using screen locally to multiplex several ssh connections to the remote host. (Will close as 'WONTFIX' pending your response.)
I am evaluating a new version of screen to see if the reasons we removed UTF-8 have been resolved. See bug #78392 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78392 ***