On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 05:00:18PM +0200, Andrew Moise wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 > Severity: normal > > If I cat right-line-wrap in an 80-character-wide xterm, then the second "z" > goes on a separate line, obviously. If I cat wrong-line-wrap, though (in a > UTF-8 locale), then the two Chinese characters at the end are not placed at the > end of the top line, and they're not line-wrapped to the line below; it seems > that they (and some further characters) are silently dropped. wrong-line-wrap > displays correctly if you widen the xterm slightly (so that line wrap isn't an > issue anymore). It sounds as if xterm is using the wrong check for deciding if the characters at the right-margin are printable. If they're not printable, xterm's supposed to ignore them. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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