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0 pointsLoganDark4d ago0 comments

When the IME inserts the character, it'll be made up of multiple bytes because of the nature of UTF-8, so it may appear as multiple asterisks regardless.

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necovek3d ago

Most software, traditional sudo included, would respect the LC_CTYPE being set to an UTF-8 (or any of the older multi-byte encodings), and do proper character counting.

At the very least, all GNU tools put a lot of focus on localization support, and I hope sudo-rs is the same.

elcritch3d ago

Having LC_CTYPE bit set to utf8 would be my worry. Would suck to not be able to logging because the LC* lang changed.

Hmmm, hopefully sudo-rs respects LC* env vars. I recall reading a few years back that some Rust Unix tools skipped that and won big on benchmarks until folks realized they weren’t handling NC localization properly.

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necovek3d ago

Most software, traditional sudo included, would respect the LC_CTYPE being set to an UTF-8 (or any of the older multi-byte encodings), and do proper character counting.

At the very least, all GNU tools put a lot of focus on localization support, and I hope sudo-rs is the same.

elcritch3d ago

Having LC_CTYPE bit set to utf8 would be my worry. Would suck to not be able to logging because the LC* lang changed.

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