Bug#258077: /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm: problem with cyrillic

[Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@dsvidf.cea.fr>]

Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5
Severity: important
File: /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm


  Hello !

  I can't quite understand what happened, but not so long ago, my uxterm stopped to work 
properly for, say, half of the unicode characters, like for instance the cyrillic 
Cyrillic_SHORTI and most of the other half. I don't quite know if it's linked to a ncurses 
bug (because the programs which I was using and/or developping were using curses). Instead 
of showing the proper character, it was showing only a blank followed by ^.

  As a indication, the problem doesn't show up if I use a non curses way to display - that 
is, if I do cat File, where File contains some characters which I can't use in the shell for 
instance, I still can see them. It seems linked to the fact that the first of the 2 bytes of 
the char is 0320 (octal).

  I will file immediately a bugreport to ncurses as well. If you have any idea of what is 
happening, please let me know !!

  Thanks

	Vincent Fourmond


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.0
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libexpat1                 1.95.6-8       XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1            2.2.2-2        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.1.7-2.1      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.4-4          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System Session Management
ii  libxaw7                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft2                   2.1.2-6        FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxpm4                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X pixmap library
ii  libxrender1               0.8.3-7        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System client libraries m
ii  xlibs-data                4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System client data

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