DJ Lucas wrote:
BLFS Trac wrote:
#1816: xterm instructions
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner:
[email protected]
Type: defect | Status:
new Priority: normal
| Milestone: Component:
BOOK |
Version: Severity:
normal |
Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I cannot comment if (4) is good. My concern was that the luit-compatible
terminfo settings for line drawing characters are in ncurses, but not in
xterm.
Result:
terminfo settings in both xterm and ncurses are compatible with OLD
xterm
and luit from X11R6.8.2, so I don't see immediate problems with "make
install-ti"
But something is very broken in the new luit. E.g.,
* the pty race is fixed in 6.9.0 but not 7.0.0
* the standard smacs and rmacs sequences are not recognized in luit
mode.
Testcase: in "xterm -lc", echo -e '\x1b(0qqq\x1b(B'. "qqq" is the wrong
result. A horizontal line is the correct result.
Well...ATM we don't link against luit. You have to explicitly pass
--enable-luit to configure. The man page is over descriptive, enough to
cause confustion as to what is needed, but '-u8' and '-en UTF-8' both
work as expected. In my case, LC_ALL=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US,
LANG=en_US.UTF-8.
Umm...yeah. Anyway, please ignore the crap above that I wrote! Both
the race condition and the line drawing issues disappear when I set
LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8! LANG is not enough to tip off luit, though the
man page mentions LANG, LC* is the kicker. So that's solves it right
there: All non-utf8 locales are officially broken! J/K :-)
Seriously, I found two very old threads that may or may not be of
interest, unfortunately, I don't see where they have been resolved either:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree-i18n&m=101688477003932&w=2
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/06/msg00566.html
-- DJ Lucas
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