retitle 273202 xterm: unprintable multibyte characters not line-wrapped tag 273202 + upstream thanks On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 10:46:14AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > 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. -- G. Branden Robinson | Why should I allow that same God Debian GNU/Linux | to tell me how to raise my kids, branden@debian.org | who had to drown His own? http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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