The mail I sent yesterday was incorrect about the whole screen
flashing; it turns out that with all
the trial and error I changed the terminal somehow. If I put
"termcapinfo putty* vb@" in ~/.screenrc,
then I get the status line message.
The problem with not being able to get a utf-8 message rema
MANY years ago I had vbell working with a Japanese message.
Recently I tried to get it to work again, but not having much luck.
If vbell_msg is in plain ascii, vbell works fine. If I enter a utf-8
message, I do get a vbell message in the status line, but the characters
are garbled, i.e., strange n
