Bug#577010: xterm: non-eight bit input is completely broken

[Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>]

Package: xterm
Version: 255-1
Severity: important

Hi,

after rebooting my system I noticed that the XTerm*eightBitInput: false
setting is ignored. Pressing alt-1 results in an eight-bit character.
This is a bug, that makes irssi almost unusable. Please provide a
workaround as soon as possible.

Helmut

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid

Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.10.2-6       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfontconfig1            2.8.0-2        generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.6-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20100313-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libutempter0              1.1.5-2        A privileged helper for utmp/wtmp 
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.3.3-2      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   2:1.0.7-1      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxft2                   2.1.14-2       FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   2:1.0.5-1      X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.7-1      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xbitmaps                  1.1.0-1        Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  x11-utils                     7.5+3      X11 utilities
ii  xutils                        1:7.5+5    X Window System utility programs m

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