Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
> give me (on my system) an xterm which understands UTF-8 by default > (without setting it manually). So I am still baffled. E.g., both > display UTF-8 e with sharp accent as A with tilde followed by an > 'at' sign. My locale is en_GB.UTF-8. So far my only solution is to > downgrade to version

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 03:31:21PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > >UTF-8 encoding. So I don't think that's what you want (though > >it was what Thomas Wolff requested). > > Do you mean the author of the mined editor? yes. > >Supposing that your locale is set to a UTF-8 one such as > >de_DE.

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-03 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Thomas Dickey wrote: [..] So the next question is how to use this information. From the commandline, I could type xterm -xrm '*locale:false' -u8 but of course that gets tedious. I generally have my $HOME/bin before other directories in $PATH, so it would be simple to write a shell script tha

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 01:19:24PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > >I already responded to this in > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318923 > > Yes.. but I did not understand it and I also had the impression > that in that thread, two differe

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-03 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Thomas Dickey wrote: I already responded to this in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318923 Yes.. but I did not understand it and I also had the impression that in that thread, two different bugs were being discussed. also see the manpage: -u8 This option sets

Processed: Re: Bug#341808: xterm: does not respect charmap for some locales

2005-12-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#341808: xterm: does not respect charmap for some locales

2005-12-03 Thread Denis Barbier
reassign 341808 xlibs-data thanks On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 02:01:15PM +0400, Stepan Golosunov wrote: > 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

Bug#341808: xterm: does not respect charmap for some locales

2005-12-03 Thread Stepan Golosunov
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=