Bug#820803: xterm: X resources parsed with locale settings
Package: xterm
Version: 324-1
Severity: normal
Settings activated via ~/.Xresources are parsed locale-dependent.
I'm running LANG=de_AT.UTF-8; if I put
XTerm*scaleHeight: 1.3
in ~/.Xresources (and "xrdb -merge" it), it's ignored.
The setting
XTerm*scaleHeight: 1,3
works, though.
Now, that won't work for long, as the /home directory is shared across
quite a few machines; and not all of them have locales installed, and not
on all of them I'm working with "de_AT", so on these the setting is invalid
again.
Configuration files should be parsed via the "C" locale, IMO - having to
think about "," vs. "." in there is awkward.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.22-5
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.4
ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160319-1
ii libutempter0 1.1.6-3
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1
ii libxft2 2.3.2-1
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.11-1+b1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1
ii xbitmaps 1.1.1-2
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.7+3
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn xfonts-cyrillic <none>
-- no debconf information
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