Package: xterm Version: 4.3.0-0pre1v3 Tags: experimental,patch XFree86 4.3.0's xterm has a feature to use UTF-8 mode and "luit" automatically so that xterm will use the character encoding of the current locale. For example, by using this feature, German people will be able to use Euro sign without any special settings for xterm. (Of course LANG variable must be set - but it is not xterm-specific setting and is needed for all softwares anyway). Of course, it is not limited to German - "luit" supports various encodings including ISO-8859 encodings, KOI8 encodings, and some Asian encodings.
However, this feature is not perfectly implemented and many people are left not knowing this feature. Moreover, some people suffer from "mojibake" problem. At first, font setting is not proper. Since this feature is implemented using UTF-8 mode, *-iso10646-1 fonts must be used. However, the default font of xterm is *-iso8859-1. Thus, the default font should be *-iso10646-1. I attached a patch for /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm to modify font settings. This is not harmful for ISO-8859-1 people because U+0000 - U+00FF range of Unicode is exactly same as ISO-8859-1. In Debian system, this modification has one more merit that non-ISO-8859-1 people won't need to install xfonts-base-transcoded (for xterm). Next, this feature is enabled only for east Asian locales and Thai. Thus, other non-ISO-8859-1 people are left not knowing this feature. To solve this problem, my patch adds "*VT100*locale: true" line for /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm file. This patch is not for UXTerm. It is xterm that automatically follows the current locale and needs *-iso10646-1 fonts. See http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/mojibake/xterm.html for screenshots. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
--- XTerm.old 2003-09-28 20:56:32.000000000 +0900 +++ XTerm 2003-10-13 14:32:07.000000000 +0900 @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ ! it is useless, and if it does, it is harmful. !XTerm.JoinSession:False +*VT100*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-iso10646-1 +*VT100*locale: true + *SimpleMenu*BackingStore: NotUseful *SimpleMenu*menuLabel.font: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* *SimpleMenu*menuLabel.vertSpace: 100 @@ -75,15 +78,15 @@ *VT100*font1: nil2 *IconFont: nil2 *fontMenu*font2*Label: Tiny -*VT100*font2: 5x7 +*VT100*font2: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-*-iso10646-1 *fontMenu*font3*Label: Small -*VT100*font3: 6x10 +*VT100*font3: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-*-iso10646-1 *fontMenu*font4*Label: Medium -*VT100*font4: 7x13 +*VT100*font4: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-*-iso10646-1 *fontMenu*font5*Label: Large -*VT100*font5: 9x15 +*VT100*font5: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-*-iso10646-1 *fontMenu*font6*Label: Huge -*VT100*font6: 10x20 +*VT100*font6: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-*-iso10646-1 *fontMenu*fontescape*Label: Escape Sequence *fontMenu*fontsel*Label: Selection !fontescape and fontsel overridden by application
