Solved Unable to enter and display accented characters with Cloudron CLI

[jeau]

I used to attribute this problem to the lack of locales in the LAMP application. They are there now.

Accented characters are not displayed in terminal mode and I get weird characters when I edit with vim. If the accented letters are present in the file, they are displayed but as soon as I touch them it's a mess.

In fact I think the problem is not related to the application but comes from the connection via Cloudron CLI (I use OSX).

In ssh directly, on the same server, I don't have this problem.

But maybe I'm wrong

[girish]

Seems to work for me on linux atleast. Maybe a node.js issue on OS X? I tried all sorts of characters.

Is there an issue in the Web Terminal or just the CLI ?

[jeau]

@girish I can do your test with cat and it works fine, but I can't enter directly any accented characters.

Same issue with Web Terminal.
I tested with OSX and with Linux (Debian).

[girish]

Ah ok, I only copy/pasted the accented characters and did not type it myself. I have no clue how to do that, so maybe someone else can test this out as well.

[nebulon]

I can reproduce at least one issue, simply trying to type German umlauts already has an issue.

[nebulon]

So this happens because we set the tty to be in raw mode https://nodejs.org/api/tty.html#readstreamsetrawmodemode

[nebulon]

Turns out this has to do with the currently unset LANG environment variable. We have pushed a fix for the next patch release. Since we are not 100% aware of potential side-effects for other parts, which utilize docker's exec the cli and webterminal only will set this to a fixed C.UTF-8 value for the moment.

[jeau]

@nebulon thanks