MarketLuit
Company Profile

Luit

luit is a utility program used to translate the character set of a computer program so that its output can be displayed correctly on a terminal emulator that uses a different character set. Whereas iconv converts the character set of strings or text files at rest, luit converts the input and output of programs running interactively.

Overview
The main purpose of luit is to allow "legacy" applications that use character sets other than UTF-8 to work with contemporary terminal emulators. luit may be required today when connecting to a "legacy" host that only supports an older encoding, such as ISO 8859-1. For example, instead of running "ssh legacy-machine", a user may have to run "" to properly render French accented characters on a UTF-8 terminal. ==History==
History
luit was written in 2001 by Juliusz Chroboczek, when major Linux distributions began migrating to the Unicode character set from "legacy" encodings such as ISO 8859-1. It has since become a widely installed base utility, present on more than half of all Linux computer systems by some estimates. It is also part of IBM's AIX. ==Implementations==
Implementations
There are two versions of luit: one maintained by Thomas Dickey as part of xterm, and another formerly updated by Freedesktop.org. Some Linux distributions ship the latter version as part of their X11 utilities package. However, while migrating to GitLab, the latter fork was discontinued because it was unmaintained. ==See also==
tickerdossier.comtickerdossier.substack.com