On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:59:04PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> > However. The command-line options of xterm simply set specific resource
> > patterns and can be overridden by other resource patterns that are more
> > specific. The "XTerm*utf8" pattern would not be overridden in a case where the
> > other would (if there were already a "*utf8" pattern lurking in your
> > resources).
>
> ~> grep -i utf /etc/X11/Xresources/*
> /etc/X11/Xresources/uxterm:UXTerm*utf8: on
that would be ignored.
> /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm:XTerm*utf8: 2
that might be used (depending on the script). I don't use xrdb.
The manpage isn't explicit (does not state the value is an integer).
It quotes the default value, which shows its type:
utf8 (class Utf8)
This specifies whether xterm will run in UTF-8 mode.
If you set this resource, xterm also sets the
wideChars resource as a side-effect. When set via a
resource, xterm cannot be switched via control
sequences out of UTF-8 mode. The default is ``0''
(off). Any other value will turn on UTF-8 mode.
> I did not changed this uxterm but I regard this uxterm as a really
> bad missconception. For instance if you log in anywhere you have
> to define a new TERM variable and whatever. Moreover, regarding to
> your mail before it is set to 'on' instead to an integer. What's
> wrong here.
no - I stated
"on" wouldn't work, since this resource happens to be an integer.
> > Perhaps that's what is happening: if your locale is not de_DE.UTF-8, then
> > forcing UTF-8 output could cause the output of umlauts to be lost. (My
> > impression is that the euro locales are 8-bit encodings, while UTF-8 is
> > multibyte - and codes in the range 128-255 are interpreted differently).
> When I had no characters at the places of Umlauts I was using
>
> LANG=de_DE@euro
> LC_ALL=de_DE@euro
>
> I now switched to
>
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
> LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
>
> The result is different but not better: ä instead of ä (a-Umlaut),
> etc - just two charcters.
>
> Note: All this happens with plain resource settings (see above). An
> xterm -u8
> works fine.
>
> If you ask me I would like to change the severity of this bug to important,
> because ist really smells like a missinterpretation of resources settings.
so far it sounds like a documentation issue.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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