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authorB. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk>2024-12-18 07:20:21 -0500
committerB. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk>2024-12-18 07:20:21 -0500
commit6d5c637c6c992e7089fd3e6963936e0878353e9b (patch)
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downloaduxd-6d5c637c6c992e7089fd3e6963936e0878353e9b.tar.gz
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@@ -202,7 +202,8 @@ Works with negative \fIpos\fP, too.
.TP
.B \-t
Put terminal in UTF\-8 mode, if possible. Prints \fBESC % G\fP sequence, which
-may or may not be supported by your terminal. To avoid surprises, this
+may or may not be supported by your terminal (works for \fBxterm\fP(1);
+does not work for \fBurxvt\fP(1)). To avoid surprises, this
option also takes the terminal out of UTF\-8 mode before \fBuxd\fP exits,
on the theory that you won\(aqt need this option if the terminal is normally
running in UTF\-8 mode. If this assumption turns out to be wrong, you can
@@ -337,14 +338,17 @@ Continuation bytes that aren\(aqt preceded by a valid prefix byte.
.IP \(bu 2
Truncated UTF\-8 sequence at EOF.
.IP \(bu 2
-UTF\-16 surrogates (codepoints U+D800 to U+DFFF).
+UTF\-16 surrogates (codepoints U+D800 to U+DFFF) [\fB*\fP].
.IP \(bu 2
-Codepoints above U+10FFFF, which are disallowed by RFC 3629.
+Codepoints above U+10FFFF, which are disallowed by the Unicode standard [\fB*\fP].
.IP \(bu 2
Overlong encodings (e.g. codepoints U+0000 to U+007F encoded
-as 2 or more bytes).
+as 2 or more bytes) [\fB*\fP].
.UNINDENT
.sp
+For items marked with [\fB*\fP], the \fB\-j\fP, \fB\-p\fP, and/or \fB\-w\fP
+options can disable error highlighting for this type of error.
+.sp
Each occurrence of any of the above will increment the "Bad
sequences" count, if the \fB\-i\fP option is used.
.UNINDENT
@@ -357,7 +361,8 @@ ANSI\-style escape sequences, Unicode, and UTF\-8 rendering.
.sp
The author\(aqs testing is done primarily with \fBurxvt\fP(1). Other
terminals aren\(aqt tested as often. Some terminals may need UTF\-8
-enabled, if it\(aqs not on by default (e.g. xterm).
+enabled, if it\(aqs not on by default (either in the terminal\(aqs settings
+or using the \fB\-t\fP option to \fBuxd\fP).
.sp
Known to work: urxvt, xterm, st, xfce4\-terminal, gnome\-terminal,
kitty, konsole, the Linux console (but see \fBFONTS\fP, below).