On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 08:17:39PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 20:02:16 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > Package: xterm > > Version: 258-1 > > > > If I switch off UTF-8 mode and do 'cat strasse.txt' (attached) in bash, then > > the text is cut off at the German umlaut. 'xterm -e tail -f strasse.txt' > > shows the same problem. Using /bin/sh (a symlink to dash) the shell even > > gets stuck (which us a severe problem). > > > > There is no such problem for gnome-terminal. Instead of the umlaut > > it prints '??'. dash exits as usual. I would suggest to do the same > > for xterm. > > > That file is all ascii, so probably not what you wanted to attach. ascii here, too. When I see the actual data, I'll be able to do some analysis. (I recall from an earlier report that gnome-terminal lacks error-checking so using that as a reference point may be misleading). -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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