Re: Keybinding UTF-8 characters?

[Amadeusz Sławiński]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:33:41 +0200
Stefan `Sec` Zehl <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have the following lines in my .screenrc:
> 
> bind ! select 11
> bind \" select 12
> bind \$ select 14
> bind % select 15
> bind & select 16
> bind / select 17
> bind ( select 18
> bind ) select 19
> bind = select 10
> 
> The intention is to use ^a + SHIFT+number to switch to the ten next
> windows.
> 
> This works fine with one problem. I'm on a german keyboard, and shift+3
> produces § (the paragraph character) which ultimately is a two-byte
> string.
> 
> I tried several ways to bind it, but I could get none of them to work:
> 
> "bind" seems to insist on a single byte, so it complains about these:
> bind § select 13
> bind \§ select 13
> 
> this command is accepted (and afterwards shown in :help), but doesn't
> actually work:
> bind \247 select 13
> 
> I've also tried some bindkey variants, but they all seem to do nothing:
> 
> bindkey ^a§ select 13
> bindkey ^a\247 select 13
> 
> Is there any way to achive what I want?
> 
> CU,
>     Sec

Hi,

yes it's known bug https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?25752
At some point encoding handling should be rewritten and then it will
likely get fixed.

Amadeusz