On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:52:01 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009 00:42:15 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Is there any progress on this bug? > > I still experience it with current libx11-6/2:1.2.1-1 > > > > Has this bug report been forwarded upstream? > > Once again, I still experience the bug with current libx11-6/2:1.3.3-1 I found out something very important about this bug! Something that could be the key to understand the whole issue. One of the way to reproduce the bug was firing up a UXTerm window and issuing the following command: $ PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0; технологии \007"' This attempted to set the window title to a UTF-8 string, but failed: a mess of odd symbols used to appear in the window title. Well, I found out that the bug goes away, as soon as I insert the following line in my ~/.Xresources : UXTerm*utf8Title: true and activate this change immediately with: $ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources or otherwise restart my X session. By looking at the xterm man page, I read that: | utf8Title (class Utf8Title) | Applications can set xterm's title by writing a control | sequence. Normally this control sequence follows the VT220 | convention, which encodes the string in ISO-8859-1 and allows | for an 8-bit string terminator. If xterm is started in a UTF-8 | locale, it translates the ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8 to work | with the X libraries which assume the string is UTF-8. | | However, some users may wish to write a title string encoded in | UTF-8. Set this resource to “true” to allow UTF-8 encoded | title strings. That cancels the translation to UTF-8, allowing | UTF-8 strings to be displayed as is. [...] | The default is “false.” This means that setting this resource to "true" disables the translation from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 of something that is already a UTF-8 string, thus preventing the mess of odd symbols to show up! I noticed that the problem is not completely solved though, not even for UXTerm: setting $ PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0; ← ↑ → ↓ ↔ ↕ ↖ ↗ ↘ ↙ ↚ ↛ ↜ ↝ ↞ \007"' still results in odd symbols like "+ ", "* "- !j "U "X "V "Y "W ? ? ? ? ? in the window title (but not in the taskbar item). This is awkward. Anyway, as I previously stated in this same bug log, I reproduced the bug with various applications, not only with UXTerm. Now, I retested Galeon: seems to show UTF-8 correctly in window titles, except for the damn arrows... I also retested root-tail: it seems to work, except for the damn arrows and some other characters (such as some phonetic symbols and some mathematical symbols). In summary, it seems that a significant part of this bug has vanished and/or been solved by setting UXTerm*utf8Title: true in ~/.Xresources The bug is not entirely fixed, though: the damn arrows do not work yet (despite the fact that most of them are correctly shown by the same font in xfontsel). Any thoughts? Does this additional information help in pinpointing the problem? Is there a way to solve the issue once and for all? -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/progs/scripts/pdebuild-hooks.html Need some pdebuild hook scripts? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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