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Bug#329712: Garbles certain graphics characters (e.g., ACS_CKBOARD) in UTF-8 locale



On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:02:54PM -0500, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> was heard to say:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:50:04AM +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > Package: xterm
> > Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> >   Since the last xterm update, I've noticed that some graphics characters are 
> > occasionally displayed in a garbled fashion.  The one I usually notice is 
> > ACS_CKBOARD; the symptom is that instead of being painted as a pattern of 
> > alternating white and black dots, it's painted as some sort of solid color.  
> > The corruption goes away if I redraw the characters (for instance, by 
> > selecting them with the mouse or exposing the window surface).
> 
> I took another look at this one today, and it seems that you're getting the
> same picture as I would expect if line-drawing is done from built-in tables,
> e.g,. because the font does not support it.  That's done with a stipple,
> which seems to come only in a finer set of dots than the fonts were done in.
> ACS_CKBOARD was a detail that I added in 2004/07/05 (xterm 192).
> 
> The color issue appears to be fixed in a change I made in 
> 2005/04/18 (which is part of #202).  I don't recall whether the
> version you reported against was #200 or #202, but suspect the former.

  I can't reproduce this any more.

  Daniel

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