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OpenBSD 7.9 release · amd64 · Generated 2026-09-09

luit-20250912

filter to convert between UTF-8 and other locales

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Description

Luit is a filter that can be run between an arbitrary application and a UTF-8 terminal emulator. It will convert application output from the locale's encoding into UTF-8, and convert terminal input from UTF-8 into the locale's encoding. Note that luit(1) support is not present in xterm(1) on OpenBSD, so this is only useful in special cases - e.g. as a wrapper for telnet(1) or an SSH client when connecting to systems without UTF-8 support.

Package information

Ports path
converters/luit
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
converters
Available flavors
None listed

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