On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:21:30AM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Following your suggestion I did xrdb -q; the result was ... > xterm*VT100*utf8: > > Apart from the first line, this is what I put in my ~/.Xresources file > ages ago. Notice there is a line xterm*VT100*utf8. I had put this in > because I thought it was necessary (and maybe it used to be in the > past). Anyway it did not hurt with xterm 200.
It does look odd since it is a blank value. I would have expected the X library to ignore that line, but it probably just uses atoi() on the resource value. > But then I commented it out, installed xterm 204, and restarted X. > And now lo and behold! xterm is 'hard-wired' to UTF-8 mode (with > right-clicking you cannot switch it off), and creating a new xterm with > xterm +u8 produces an xterm which displays Latin-1, and which can be > switched to UTF-8 manually. This is what Thomas Wolff wanted, I assume. yes - that sounds like the behavior that I expect (thanks). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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