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Bug#687699: screen output



On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 10:44:13PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2012-09-15 11:50 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> 
> > Package: xterm
> > Version: 278-2
> >
> > If I use pbuilder to build a package within an xterm, then
> > the screen output gets cut off when ca-certificates-java is
> > set up.
> >
> > Attached you can find a sample. In my xterm I get
> >
> > 	% zcat x.gz | wc -l
> > 	3
> > 	% zcat x.gz
> > 	Adding debian:EBG_Elektronik_Sertifika_Hizmet_SaÄ%
> 
> For the record, the trailing '%' is printed by zsh (it does that when
> the output is not properly newline-terminated), and the problem
> apparently only happens in non-UTF-8 locales.

Harald did not mention which locales were used (but the 0x9f byte interpreted
in a non-UTF-8 locale will do what is described here).  You may find it helpful
to set the brokenStringTerm resource (doing that would only lose part of the
text).  Better solution would be to use consistent encoding...

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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