Bug#318923: marked as done (xterm: localization hell again (even with UTF8 locales))
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From: Wladimir Mutel <mwg@mwg.dp.ua>
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Subject: xterm: localization hell again (even with UTF8 locales)
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Package: xterm
Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2
Severity: important
How to reproduce :
1. Create/generate locales for en_US.UTF-8 and uk_UA.UTF-8
2. Add '*faceName: Terminus' into app-defaults/XTerm (Terminus has
enough Unicode characters for both Latin and Cyrillic).
3. Start xterm (or uxterm) with LANG=en_US.UTF-8
4. Inside it, run 'date' with LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8
5. See 'nnn nnn' instead of weekday and month names.
Why, oh why English UTF8 locale/encoding excludes
Cyrillic UTF8 characters out of printability ?
(the same could be reproduced with 'fixed' or 'clean' fonts as well,
(-fa option) with only difference - there dotted squares are seen).
How this should be indeed :
3. Start xterm/uxterm with LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8 (or with any other UTF8
locale, as it worked before)
4. Run 'date' with LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8
5. See proper cyrillic letters for month and weekday.
6. Run 'date' wirh LANG=en_US.UTF-8
7. See proper English date.
This behaviour started to occur after upgrading from XFree86 4.3.0 to
X.Org 6.8.2 . Don't know if it lays in xterm itself or in supporting
libs. Did not do any deep research. Just noticed that on one my system
where locale was en_US.UTF-8, Cyrillic letters stopped to be printed
after this upgrade. No similar effects were observed in gvim, neither
in Mozilla. Only 'beloved' xterm was so overly sensitive ...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers hoary-updates
APT policy: (500, 'hoary-updates'), (500, 'hoary-security'), (500, 'hoary'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12
Locale: LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=uk_UA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-1ubuntu3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.4-8 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 X Window System Session Management
ii libxaw8 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxp6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 X Window System printing extension
ii libxpm4 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 X pixmap library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 X Window System client libraries m
ii xlibs-data 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 X Window System client data
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii xutils 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 X Window System utility programs
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From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
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Subject: xterm: localization hell again (even with UTF8 locales)
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