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From:
Hugo Villeneuve-Lapointe <hugo@EINTR.net>
Subject:
Re: The death of "luit" [Re: xterm has incorrect path /usr/bin/luit embedded in source code]
To:
ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Cc:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Date:
Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:51:53 -0500

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On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 07:48:03AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> moving to ports@
> 
> On 2026-02-09, Hugo Villeneuve-Lapointe <hugo@EINTR.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I guess I missed the part where this thread lead to luit being removed post
> > 7.8:

> > like: 
> >
> >   luit -encoding 'ISO8859-1' telnet host
> >   luit -encoding 'ISO8859-1' plink -1 host

> >
> > I'll just have to figure out a recipe to compile it on my own from
> > -rOPENBSD_7_8 sources.
> 
> It looks easy enough to add to ports. Does this work for you?
> 

Thanks for taking up my plight :)

I'll try to setup a clean snapshot to test before port lock down
(that is early-March?).

But currently on 7.8/arm64 my comments are:

1. it's luit 2.0-20250912 vs the old 1.1.1. an upgrade!

2. it compiles, creates a package. no problem

3. for my use case, it works. But I only need simple ISO-8859-1
support.

I'm not doing anything complicated like double-byte encoding for
Big5, JIS.


Take care.