On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 05:40:11PM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> Hi Eduard,
> dear xterm maintainers,
>
> I've recently adopted xtermset and therefore I'd tried to reproduce
> and triage this reported bug. After all I come to conclusion that the
> bug is not caused by xtermset. IMHO: Its a bug in xterm. I came to that
> conclusion after testing to set the title without xtermset, with the
> appropriate control sequence:
>
> ]2;Bär^G
>
> It does not work either. So my assumption was that xterm is not able to
> handle umlauts in control sequences. That assumption proved to be right,
> because xtermset (and the print-it-yourself variant) works fine in
> gnome-terminal. That it works with xterm -T is probably caused by some
> reencoding (see [1]), but I can only speculate.
>
> I therefore reassigned the bug to xterm.
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html
Patch #210 - 2006/3/12 - XFree86 4.5.99.902
* add utf8Title resource and menu entry, allowing the user to
control whether title strings are interpreted as ISO-8859-1 or
UTF-8 encoding (Novell #52655, #113206).
man xterm
utf8Title (class Utf8Title)
Applications can set xterm's title by writing a control
sequence. Normally this control sequence follows the VT220
convention, which encodes the string in ISO-8859-1 and allows
for an 8-bit string terminator. If xterm is started in a UTF-8
locale, it translates the ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8 to work
with the X libraries which assume the string is UTF-8.
However, some users may wish to write a title string encoded in
UTF-8. Set this resource to ``true'' to allow UTF-8 encoded
title strings. That cancels the translation to UTF-8, allowing
UTF-8 strings to be displayed as is.
The default is ``false.''
> Could you please take care for it?
>
> Thanks Best Regards,
>
> Patrick
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug51754
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