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I've been able to display UTF-8 in screen without problems. It's stable, feature rich, bug-free (in my personal experience), and standard. I'm not sure what t
by gnosis 17y ago
I've been able to display UTF-8 in screen without problems. It's stable, feature rich, bug-free (in my personal experience), and standard.
I'm not sure what tmux could offer that would make me switch. But I might check it out some time.
- thristian 17y agoscreen only supports 16-bit Unicode, the Basic Multilingual Plane. Unicode is actually a 21-bit character set and although there's not many characters in the higher ("astral") planes yet, there's more added with each new revision. I believe the major feature of tmux over screen is that it allows arbitrary layout of panes per window, rather than just horizontal divisions, although personally I switched because I'm just that nerdy about Unicode. tmux was written by a guy who was very familiar with screen (in fact, it was written inside screen) and while there's no incredibly major differences, I think there's a number of small annoyances that have been filed off.
- cturner 17y agoTmux has promise, but I've found it less practical. For example, if you have a large feed happening (example: cat a large file) then the tmux build I used became unresponsive.