Package: xorg Version: 1:7.0.22 Severity: normal Hello,
I switched recently to utf8 encoding, but I would like to keep some terminals as pure iso-8859-1 displays. In utf8-aware terminal, there are no problems, but accentuated letters typed in iso-8859-1 terminal are ignored at the shell level. I proceed as follows: -launch xterm +u8, which 'bash' as shell. There is nothing about utf8 in .Xressources or .Xdefaults -stty -a shows the terminal does not support utf8 (-iutf8) -locale is set as: export LANG=fr_BE.ISO-8859-1 -'locale' report everything is iso-8859-1 - launching programs does not generate any warning about missing locales - xorg keyboard configured as 105 keys, Belgian - xev window show the code generated for é is eacute, 0xe9 - typing 'é' at the bash level does not produce anything, even with output-meta and convert-meta set to on - in vi, typing 'é' results in the double char 0xc3 0xa9 (utf-8) - displaying this file with 'more' shows two graphic chars - recode utf8..iso-8859-1 file and displaying again with more shows the right character, 'é' It seems that the problems results from conflicting locales: -xterm locales from its environment are utf-8 -bash locales from its environment are iso8859-1 The problem disappears if xterm is launched as env LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 xterm Would it be possible to sort this conflict ? TIA Pascal Dupuis -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18 Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages xorg depends on: ii eterm [x-terminal 0.9.3-1 Enlightened Terminal Emulator ii libgl1-mesa-dri 6.5.0.cvs.20060524-1.1 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libgl1-mesa-glx 6.5.0.cvs.20060524-1.1 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libglu1-mesa 6.5.0.cvs.20060524-1.1 The OpenGL utility library (GLU) ii rxvt [x-terminal- 1:2.6.4-10 VT102 terminal emulator for the X ii rxvt-unicode [x-t 7.9-2 RXVT-like terminal emulator with U ii xbase-clients 1:7.1.ds-3 miscellaneous X clients ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-2 100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-2 100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-3 standard fonts for X ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-4 scalable fonts for X ii xkb-data 0.8-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii xserver-xorg 1:7.0.22 the X.Org X server ii xterm [x-terminal 210-3.1 X terminal emulator ii xutils 1:7.1.ds-1 X Window System utility programs xorg recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
