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Bug#418324: marked as done (xterm: baffling weirdness with 9x15 font and some Unicode glyphs)

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and subject line Bug#418324: fixed in xterm 226-1
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: xterm
Version: 222-3
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

This is an upstream issue, I'll wager.

The root of my complaint is that the Unicode glyphs LEFT-POINTING ANGLE
BRACKET (U+2329) and RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET (U+232A) don't render
when I size my xterms up to the "Large" font.  This was brought to my
attention because GNU roff renders URLs between these glyphs in UTF-8
environments.  (On a Debian system, an example of a manpage that uses the
.URL macro is "update-fonts-alias", but there are many others.)

At first I thought this was just an oversight in the 9x15 font, as those
glyphs render fine.  So fired up gbdfed to have a look, intending to draw
my own glyphs and submit a patch.

Imagine my surprise when I found that the font does define glyphs there.
Next I thought, well, maybe the bounding box is wrong, or it's declared as
a normal-width character but is really double-width.  Those guesses appear
to be wrong, too:

STARTCHAR angleleft
ENCODING 9001
SWIDTH 576 0
DWIDTH 9 0
BBX 9 15 0 -3
BITMAP
0000
0000
0400
0400
0800
0800
1000
1000
0800
0800
0400
0400
0000
0000
0000
ENDCHAR
STARTCHAR angleright
ENCODING 9002
SWIDTH 576 0
DWIDTH 9 0
BBX 9 15 0 -3
BITMAP
0000
0000
1000
1000
0800
0800
0400
0400
0800
0800
1000
1000
0000
0000
0000
ENDCHAR

I'm not really clear on what SWIDTH and DWIDTH are, but they (and the
bounding box "BBOX") are the same as glyph 9000 (U+2328 "KEYBOARD"), which
renders fine.

So then I thought maybe it's a bug in xterm.  After floundering a bit,
because konsole doesn't want to play with bitmap fonts and fails to
"install" them when its convoluted dialogs offer to, and gnome-terminal
wanted to install a few dozen megs of dependencies, including Epiphrany and
dvd+rw-tools (?!), I settled on rxvt-unicode-ml.

I was in for another surprise.  urxvt displays the glyphs correctly -- but
then so does xterm, when I launch it manually!  (Usually I just let the
session manager start all the xterms I use.)  What's more, both urxvt and
xterm suddenly forget how to render U+2328 and U+232B ("ERASE TO THE
LEFT"), which my usual xterms that can't render angle brackets handle just
fine!

There is one difference between urxvt and xterm -- the angle bracket glyphs
I *do* get look right on urxvt, but xterm is showing me some ugly stuff
that reminds me of the semigraphics characters on the TRS-80 Model I.

I've worked with X for a long time but this has me stumped.

What on earth is going on?

Here's my $HOME/.Xresources; as you can see, I don't change XTerm's fonts:

! Personal Xresources file

XClipboard*Form*Text*font:	fixed

XConsole.verbose:	true
XConsole*iconic:	false
XConsole*geometry:	1272x89+0-58
XConsole*saveLines:	1000
XConsole*font:		6x10

XTerm*autoWrap:		true
XTerm*curses:		true
XTerm*loginShell:	true
XTerm*reverseWrap:	true
XTerm*scrollBar:	true
XTerm*saveLines:	5000
XTerm*scrollTtyOutput:	false
XTerm*trimSelection:	true
XTerm*visualBell:	true
XTerm*activeIcon:	true
XTerm.VT100.background:	gray30
XTerm.VT100.foreground:	gray90
XTerm.VT100.geometry:	200x67-0+0
XTerm.VT100.color4:	DodgerBlue1
XTerm.VT100.color8:	gray50
XTerm.VT100.color12:	SteelBlue1
XTerm.VT100.scrollbar.background:	white
XTerm.VT100.scrollbar.foreground:	blue

UXTerm*autoWrap:		true
UXTerm*curses:			true
UXTerm*loginShell:		true
UXTerm*reverseWrap:		true
UXTerm*scrollBar:		true
UXTerm*saveLines:		5000
UXTerm*scrollTtyOutput:		false
UXTerm*trimSelection:		true
UXTerm*visualBell:		true
UXTerm*activeIcon:		true
UXTerm.VT100.background:	gray30
UXTerm.VT100.foreground:	gray90
UXTerm.VT100.geometry:		200x67-0+0
UXTerm.VT100.color4:		DodgerBlue1
UXTerm.VT100.color8:		gray50
UXTerm.VT100.color12:		SteelBlue1
UXTerm.VT100.scrollbar.background:	 white
UXTerm.VT100.scrollbar.foreground:	blue

XCalc*IconName:		xcalc

XLock.star.delay: 20000
XLock.star.batchcount: 100
XLock.star.saturation: 1.0
XLock.star.rock: on
XLock.star.trek: 0

! vim:ai:noet:sts=8:sw=8:tw=0:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-powerpc-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1              2.4.2-1.2    generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                     1:1.0.1-2    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5                 5.5-5        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                      1:1.0.1-3    X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.0.3-7    X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                     1:1.0.2-4    X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6                    1:1.0.1-2    X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                     2.1.8.2-8    FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                     1:1.0.2-2    X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                      1:1.0.2-2    X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xbitmaps                    1.0.1-2      Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  xutils                      1:7.1.ds.3-1 X Window System utility programs

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
Source: xterm
Source-Version: 226-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xterm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

xterm_226-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_226-1.diff.gz
xterm_226-1.dsc
  to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_226-1.dsc
xterm_226-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_226-1_i386.deb
xterm_226.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_226.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 418324@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> (supplier of updated xterm package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:02:22 +0100
Source: xterm
Binary: xterm
Architecture: source i386
Version: 226-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Description: 
 xterm      - X terminal emulator
Closes: 12261 349142 418324 420974 421523 422521 426364 426863
Changes: 
 xterm (226-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Branden Robinson ]
   * Remove debian/NEWS; the events it attested to (like the "upcoming 7.0
     modularization" are no longer news, and are in the past.
 .
   [ Julien Cristau ]
   * Configure with --with-tty-group=tty, to prevent security problems in case
     of buggy build environment (closes: #349142).
   * New upstream release.
     + fix  an  infinite  loop  when  showing  a  2-column character in a
       1-column screen (closes: #426863).
     + add  XF86Paste  and  SunPaste  to the default translations
       (closes: #422521, patch by Bernhard R Link).
     + improve  permissions  logic  when  closing pseudo-terminal
       (closes: #12261, patch by Nathanael Nerode, analysis by Richard
       Braakman).
     + add  a check in case someone tries to call the popup-menu() action
       on a menu which is not initialized (closes: #426364).
     + fix error-checking on internal font switching for "Selection" menu
       entry (closes: #421523).
     + amend select/paste change from patch #225 by limiting it to
       non-UTF-8/non-KOI8-R encoding (closes: #420974).
     + add  workaround  for  groff  ".URL" codes which are not present in
       some commonly-used bitmap fonts (closes: #418324).
   * Update reference to xlibs-data in xterm's description, refer to xbitmaps
     instead.
   * Build-depend on desktop-file-utils to install the new desktop files for
     xterm and uxterm, and change debian/rules and debian/xterm.install to
     install these files and the icons.
Files: 
 104129b8aabcf3498c64be24716de973 825 x11 optional xterm_226-1.dsc
 93d1f43ac3c13af86c598493f14a36f6 835862 x11 optional xterm_226.orig.tar.gz
 57ae2778e0a806deb01a41cc6fee0292 61616 x11 optional xterm_226-1.diff.gz
 94f81ecbb70c7cf120552b2a5a4bdeb2 452080 x11 optional xterm_226-1_i386.deb

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