retitle 258077 xterm: [uxterm] some Cyrillic characters not displayed correctly tag 258077 + upstream help thanks On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:33:07PM +0200, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > 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 !! Hi Thomas, Is this the same issue as that reported in #256321? http://bugs.debian.org/256321 -- G. Branden Robinson | You are not angry with people when Debian GNU/Linux | you laugh at them. Humor teaches branden@debian.org | them tolerance. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- W. Somerset Maugham
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