Bug#279252: [uxterm] uxterm should not override my locale
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:48:34PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
>> I disagree, it has always been pretty clear to me that uxterm is a nice
>> way to temporarily switch to a UTF-8 locale, its behavior should not be
>> altered. Maybe a new wrapper could be added, say lxterm, to launch
>> uxterm in UTF-8 locales and xterm otherwise?
>
> Not just that, but people have requested a wrapper similar to uxterm called
> "koi8rxterm".
>
> lxterm could decide whether to launch regular xterm, uxterm, or koi8rxterm
> based on the character set currently used by the locale.
>
> What do you guys think? I'd be happy to repurpose this bug for this goal,
> and to write the script as well.
I do not know enough about xterm to know why it doesn't already launch in
UTF-8 mode if the user is in an UTF-8-locale (ie. without a helper script),
but apart from that, this sounds excellent to me, as it would make the
default x-terminal-emulator respect whatever locale the user has set, which
I think is the only sane option in the first place. :-)
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