Bug#820803: xterm: X resources parsed with locale settings

["Ph. Marek" <philipp.marek@linbit.com>]

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>

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