Bug#541089: xterm: bold color attribute now displaying as black by default

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:00:04 -0500, Mark Nipper wrote:

> 	With yesterday's update of xterm, bold  attributes are
> displaying in the color black.  I'm assuming '+bdc' got set by default
> somehow instead of '-bdc'?
> 
> 	Anyway, since a lot of people probably use black as their
> default background color, this might cause a lot of problems.  Not only
> did portions of my prompt string disappear in my shell (minor issue),
> but man pages are pretty much unreadable.
> 
> 	Simply setting the resource (or passing the '-bdc' option to my
> xterm) fixes the problem.  I'm not sure if this is something you need to
> address, but I'm submitting this report for reference sake at the very
> least.

I can't reproduce this.  manpages are readable for me with the default
settings, and xterm +bdc makes bold text disappear.
Anything particular in your setup?

Cheers,
Julien