10:58 <__toor__> I am running foot with locale LANG=C but then I get an error message. Is this expected?

11:03 <__toor__> does the locale have to be called 'C.utf8' for it to work? If I open up C locale I think its already is an utf8 locale by default, since a few glibc versions ago (like 10 years)

13:20 <dnkl> __toor__: glibc's C locale is not UTF-8, as far as I know. That's what the C.UTF-8 locale is for. and yes, you need to use an UTF-8 locale for foot to work correctly (it's VT parser assumes utf-8)

13:25 <j`ey> before I go looking into the code, what does foot use threads for?

13:40 <dnkl> rendering, and faster reloading of fonts

13:42 <j`ey> rockorager says he has 17 threads for one foot terminal, which seemed a lot

13:43 <dnkl> default number of threads for rendering is the number of virtual CPUs. The more the better, except you don't need more threads than the number of rows in the terminal window

13:48 <j`ey> wow ok

13:49 <j`ey> so there's a pool fo threads, and each row is rendered separately, amongst that pool?

14:33 <dnkl> correct