retitle 279252 xterm: write lxterm and koi8rxterm scripts and make lxterm the highest-priority x-terminal-emulator thanks On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:27:11AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:42:43PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > 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. :-) > > AFAICT this is discussed in noisy #215647, and especially > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=215647&msg=81 > My understanding is that Thomas Dickey suggests that these settings > should work in Debian, but IIRC I had problems and was unable to > display Euro sign with fr_FR@euro, but maybe it is worth discussing > this issue again. Okay; seeing no objection, I'm going to go forward with my proposal. N.B., my comments here are not really applicable to the fr_FR@euro difficulties -- I'm not sure what's going on there. But as far as I know, glibc thinks fr_FR@euro means fr_FR.ISO-8859-15, doesn't it? -- G. Branden Robinson | Convictions are more dangerous Debian GNU/Linux | enemies of truth than lies. branden@debian.org | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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