Bug#361315: xterm: Problem with German Umlauts

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Package: xterm
Version: 210-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

I observed two strange effects with German Umlauts:

   1. I can type in Umlauts and they are printed nicely, but
      if I press backspace to remove the Umlaut I have to
      press it twice to remove it completely.  Imagine that
      I tested typing three Umlauts in the beginning of the
      shell prompt and want to delete these I have to press
      six times backspace and the cursor moves right into the
      prompt.

   2. It is the first time at all that I'm able to verify
      bug #316953 which has the advantage that I can investigate
      into this problem, but this does not really reduce my
      frustration.

There is no difference between xterm and uxterm (= xterm -u8).

When I use gnome-terminal everything is fine.  I did not
change my environment variable setting compared to an older
version of xterm when it worked fine.  I have also another
box that does not show this strange effect.  I'm willing
to provide any further information that might be necessary
to track down the problem, but I have no idea what might be
helpful.

Kind regards and thanks for maintaining xterm

         Andreas.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (499, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE@euro)

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.6-3        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfontconfig1            2.3.2-1.1      generic font configuration library
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  libxaw7                   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                   2.1.8.2-5.1    FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util
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

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: