Bug#347790: xterm: boldFont problem seems related to font encoding

[Simon Budig <simon@budig.de>]

Package: xterm
Version: 208-3.1
Followup-For: Bug #347790


I too discovered that xterm no longer respects the boldFont ressource.
In my .Xresources file I have these lines:

*vt100*font:     -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1
*vt100*boldFont: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1
*vt100*boldMode: off
*vt100*boldColors: true
*vt100*colorBDMode: true

Now this does not work for some reason. *But* when I change the font to the
unicode encoding:

*vt100*font:     -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1
*vt100*boldFont: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1
*vt100*boldMode: off
*vt100*boldColors: true
*vt100*colorBDMode: true

then boldMode suddenly starts working for whatever reason.

Hope this helps,
        Simon

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-13       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfontconfig1            2.3.2-1.1      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.1.10-1       FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libice6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.5-1          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                    6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii  libx11-6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxaw8                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft2                   2.1.8.2-3      FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.0.2-1    X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                    6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs-data                6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client data
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-9      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  xutils                    6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System utility programs

-- debconf information:
* xterm/clobber_xresource_file: true
  xterm/xterm_needs_devpts: