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Bug#318923: utf-8 option for xterm does not work anymore



On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 08:25:50PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 
> >Though (I don't see it in my changelog), there was the
> >additional complication of ensuring that simply having UTF-8
> >locale set in the environment did not cause the utf8 resource
> >in xterm to be set, e.g.,
> >
> >    setenv LANG=en_US.UTF-8 
> >     xterm +u8
> >
> >should run xterm without the resource set.
> 
> Couldn't the same effect be achieved (with the old version) just
> by calling, e.g., LANG=en_US xterm? On my system this un-utfs the
> xterm very well.

Not exactly.  The complaint was that the command-line option was not
overriding the "locale" resource setting, which looked at the environment
and simply turned on the UTF-8 mode because it was a UTF-8 locale.
 
> >Generally the old binaries run - I happened to notice last
> >night that I had about 75 copies of xterm in my /usr/local/bin
> >(and the bug that I was looking at dated back before X11R5 ;-).
> 
> How do you keep them all sorted out? ;-)

They all have patch numbers as part of the filename.  It makes a quick
way to check old versions to see when a bug was introduced.
 
> Extra data point: after purging "new", installing "old", and then
> copying only the "new" xterm binary over the "old", the bug
> recurred. So it seems the bug really is in the binary, not in any
> (possibly changed) config stuff installed by Debian.

That's what I'm assuming.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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