Package: xterm Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Severity: normal When xterm is running in ru_RU locale (which uses ISO-8859-5), it shows characters as if they were KOI8-R encoded, giving garbage:
$ locale;locale charmap;date LANG=ru_RU LC_CTYPE="ru_RU" LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU" LC_TIME="ru_RU" LC_COLLATE="ru_RU" LC_MONETARY="ru_RU" LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU" LC_PAPER="ru_RU" LC_NAME="ru_RU" LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU" LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU" LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU" LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU" LC_ALL= ISO-8859-5 аяБ ╢уз 3 13:16:22 SAMT 2005 LANG=ru_RU.ISO8859-5 xterm shows characters in iso-8859-5 encoding. ru_RU.UTF-8, ru_RU.KOI8-R and ru_RU.CP1251 locales are unaffected. $ grep ru_RU /etc/locale.gen ru_RU ISO-8859-5 ru_RU.KOI8-R KOI8-R ru_RU.CP1251 CP1251 ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8 My .Xresources file contains XTerm*locale: true XTerm*VT100.utf8Fonts.font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--20-200-72-72-c-100-iso10646-1 XTerm*VT100.utf8Fonts.font2: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1 XTerm*VT100.utf8Fonts.font3: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1 XTerm*VT100.utf8Fonts.font4: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--20-200-72-72-c-100-iso10646-1 XTerm*VT100.utf8Fonts.font5: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--24-240-72-72-c-120-iso10646-1 XTerm*VT100.utf8Fonts.font6: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--28-280-72-72-c-140-iso10646-1 P.S. ISO-8859-5 ru_RU locale is not widely used, but /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED contains "ru_RU ISO-8859-5" line -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages xterm depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Session Management ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Athena widget set library ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X pixmap library ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System client data -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
