On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 07:14:28PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 > Severity: important > > After discussing this with Branden on IRC, I was asked to file a bug > report, so here goes: > > uxterm is now the default alternative for x-terminal-emulator; however, > debian-installer does not set an UTF-8 locale for my language (nb_NO). > Thus, I'd expect uxterm to behave like Branden thought it did; quote > Branden on IRC: "uxterm doesn't start a UTF-8 xterm if no UTF-8 locale > is set".
I disagree, it has always been pretty clear to me that uxterm is a nice way to temporarily switch to a UTF-8 locale, its behavior should not be altered. Maybe a new wrapper could be added, say lxterm, to launch uxterm in UTF-8 locales and xterm otherwise? Denis
