On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:48:34PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: >> 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? > > Not just that, but people have requested a wrapper similar to uxterm called > "koi8rxterm". > > lxterm could decide whether to launch regular xterm, uxterm, or koi8rxterm > based on the character set currently used by the locale. > > What do you guys think? I'd be happy to repurpose this bug for this goal, > and to write the script as well.
I do not know enough about xterm to know why it doesn't already launch in UTF-8 mode if the user is in an UTF-8-locale (ie. without a helper script), but apart from that, this sounds excellent to me, as it would make the default x-terminal-emulator respect whatever locale the user has set, which I think is the only sane option in the first place. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/
