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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:58:40 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com>
Subject:   Re: Unicode (was Re: Updating ncurses in base)
Message-ID:  <20060626115840.vrmox3wo0gg08gog@netchild.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060626014939.GA74292@over-yonder.net>
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Quoting "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> (from Sun, 25 =20
Jun 2006 20:49:39 -0500):

[xterm and UTF-8]
> I set the fonts, turn off the 'locale' and on the 'utf8' resources
> (these steps being necessary to get it to work right).  And then, it
> seems to work as long as I DON'T set the locale in the shell invoking
> it.  Compare what I see from your linked utf8demo.txt from `xterm`[0]
> versus `env LANG=3Den_US.UTF-8 xterm`[1].

At the time I switched to UTF-8 I was using xterm too. It dodn't =20
worked as expected. I noticed that there's "uxterm" (installed with =20
xterm). I tried it and I think it was a little bit better than plain =20
xterm itself. But maybe it just defaults to what you did by hand above.

I was not satisified and switched to the gnome terminal. It works =20
without problems for me (but I didn't tried the example you tried).

Summary: maybe most people just use something else in case they =20
need/want UTF-8, and they don't bother to fight with xterm because =20
they just want something which works. So don't be surprised if this is =20
a bug in xterm.

Bye,
Alexander.

--=20
'Why?' he [Rincewind] said.
The world is going to end.
'What, again?'
(Sourcery)

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