On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> writes:But in the past couple of weeks, I've been installing a new machine, and noticed -on a couple of other Linux's- that there's some breakage in luit which may be related (if you didn't happen to have the Latin-1 locale installed, for instance).I use a UTF-8 locale, so luit isn't involved. Further investigation revealed that the relevant upgrade was not of xterm (from version 255, FTR) but of ncurses-base; the addition of rmm and smm settings to xterm's terminfo entry somehow caused xterm to ignore the eightBitInput resource. (There are some other differences as well, mostly in k* settings, but those look most likely to be the culprit.)
That's already been discussed in SuSE - it's an issue with bash.It should allow the decision whether to enable meta mode to be configurable. bash's maintainer hasn't been cooperative.
see http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_21 (the interaction with bash's maintainer, unfortunately, is mostly in private email among me and the SuSE maintainers)
I'm leaving this bug assigned to xterm anyway, both because I'm not convinced that that change should have had such an effect and because ncurses gets its xterm terminfo definition from xterm's sources. (The latest update claims to have taken xterm-246's definition.)
-- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net