Bug#514875: xterm: please make "eightBitInput: true" by default
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:05:11AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 16:38 +0100, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> > The Euro character doesn't display unless eightBitInput is true. Please
> > consider making it the default. It could be very confusing for newbies
> > having set up euro support properly for all apps, that xterm requires a
> > special switch (unlike other apps).
>
> hmm? the default *is* true, according to the manpage (and the code, as
> far as I can tell)...
You are right, I just found out that it's the presence (or not) of the
LC_CTYPE (or LC_ALL) variable in the environment that makes the
difference.
Sorry for barking up the wrong tree.
Cheers,
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