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Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default



On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:10:11PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 02:23:32PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Notice that some locales have shifted to UTF-8 by default for etch (like
> > french, but i think a couple other european languages too, i saw it in
> > german too i think). Will xterm default to the right thing in this case ?
> 
> I do not remember why exactly, but Branden decided to add a new wrapper
> called lxterm for this purpose, instead of modifying xterm and/or
> uxterm.

The reason was that it would have changed uxterm incompatibly,
to solve a problem that could be done outside it.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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