Bug#318923: xterm: localization hell again (even with UTF8 locales)

2005-07-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 09:02:13AM +0300, Wladimir Mutel wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 06:09:36PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > Looking for a different way of seeing things, I find that xfd can display > > TrueType fonts (in a limited way - no size changes). If I run > > > > xfd -fa T

Bug#318923: xterm: localization hell again (even with UTF8 locales)

2005-07-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:39:04AM +0200, David Martínez Moreno wrote: > El Miércoles, 20 de Julio de 2005 10:31, Wladimir Mutel escribió: > > > Ok, I decided to comment out this 'fontFace'. And know what ? > > > The localization hell has gone ! :> Now if only I could get back > > > my nice b

Re: Bug#318923: xterm: localization hell again (even with UTF8 locales)

2005-07-20 Thread David Martínez Moreno
El Miércoles, 20 de Julio de 2005 10:31, Wladimir Mutel escribió: > > Ok, I decided to comment out this 'fontFace'. And know what ? > > The localization hell has gone ! :> Now if only I could get back > > my nice boldification that I had in the past ... :> > > Thanks to developers

Bug#318923: xterm: localization hell again (even with UTF8 locales)

2005-07-20 Thread Wladimir Mutel
> Ok, I decided to comment out this 'fontFace'. And know what ? > The localization hell has gone ! :> Now if only I could get back > my nice boldification that I had in the past ... :> Thanks to developers, in 6.8.2.dfsg.1-3 boldification hell was fixed as well.

Bug#318923: xterm: localization hell again (even with UTF8 locales)

2005-07-19 Thread Wladimir Mutel
> After one upgrade, I have found that my xterm started to display > 'fixed' font. It started to skip these 'terminus' XLFDs in some way. > Then I did some juggling (copied XLFDs from XTerm to UXTerm ot vice > versa, don't remember exactly), and Terminus returned back. Bu

Bug#318923: xterm: localization hell again (even with UTF8 locales)

2005-07-19 Thread Wladimir Mutel
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 06:09:36PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Looking for a different way of seeing things, I find that xfd can display > TrueType fonts (in a limited way - no size changes). If I run > > xfd -fa Terminus Oh yes. Running xfd in en_US.UTF-8 locale, I indeed get o

Bug#318923: xterm: localization hell again (even with UTF8 locales)

2005-07-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
I'm studied Xft/fontconfig well enough to guess what's going on. It appears that Xft/fontconfig don't provide a reliable mechanism for the application to say that they don't want an 8-bit font. (It is possible to use the FC_CHARSET property to do something like this, but it's slow and unreliable)

Bug#318923: xterm: localization hell again (even with UTF8 locales)

2005-07-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:18:45PM +0300, Wladimir Mutel wrote: > > Very strange 'locale' printout above. Perhaps you should run > 'with-locale' with first parameter 'uk_UA.UTF-8', not the entire > assignment 'LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8'. Btw, your 'date' prints English > date, not C

Bug#318923: xterm: localization hell again (even with UTF8 locales)

2005-07-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:18:45PM +0300, Wladimir Mutel wrote: > > Very strange 'locale' printout above. Perhaps you should run > 'with-locale' with first parameter 'uk_UA.UTF-8', not the entire > assignment 'LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8'. Btw, your 'date' prints English > date, not C

Bug#318923: xterm: localization hell again (even with UTF8 locales)

2005-07-19 Thread Wladimir Mutel
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 05:36:02PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > /usr/build/xterm/xterm-203b (101) ./testit > locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory > locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory > locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to defaul

Bug#318923: xterm: localization hell again (even with UTF8 locales)

2005-07-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 07:20:06PM +0200, Wladimir Mutel wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 > Severity: important > > > How to reproduce : > > 1. Create/generate locales for en_US.UTF-8 and uk_UA.UTF-8 > 2. Add '*faceName: Terminus' into app-defaults/XTerm (Terminus has > en

Bug#318923: xterm: localization hell again (even with UTF8 locales)

2005-07-18 Thread Wladimir Mutel
Package: xterm Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 Severity: important How to reproduce : 1. Create/generate locales for en_US.UTF-8 and uk_UA.UTF-8 2. Add '*faceName: Terminus' into app-defaults/XTerm (Terminus has enough Unicode characters for both Latin and Cyrillic). 3. Start xterm (or uxterm) w