Bug#469943: xterm: Unicode display problems
Package: xterm
Version: 232-1
Severity: normal
If I invoke the application with
uxterm -fa monospace -fs 12 -bg black -fg white
the settings match those provided by gnome-terminal by default.
Yet (u)xterm doesn't display some characters properly. Sometimes (with
fonts such as monospace) it at least hints at them being there by drawing
boxes, but with the Debian-provided default font and some other fonts it only
draws spaces. This affects for example the following greek letters:
'ΩϡϿ'
With monospace the omega (Ω) is shown correctly, but the other two are
not. The same characters work fine in gnome-terminal.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.6+20071103-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xbitmaps 1.0.1-2 Base X bitmaps
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.3+1 X11 utilities
ii xutils 1:7.3+3 X Window System utility programs m
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