On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:42:43PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > 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. :-)
AFAICT this is discussed in noisy #215647, and especially http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=215647&msg=81 My understanding is that Thomas Dickey suggests that these settings should work in Debian, but IIRC I had problems and was unable to display Euro sign with [EMAIL PROTECTED], but maybe it is worth discussing this issue again. Denis
