It appears that the latest xterm (6.8.99) is built without Unicode support. Downgrading to 6.8.2, Unicode functionality works properly. My environment is all UTF-8, and everything from vim to man pages do not display correctly with the newer xterm package, but do with the older one.
Oops, I just noticed Robert Uhl's thread about this very problem from November 6. So, yeah, I second all of that. It's about way, way more than copyright symbols -- I can't read unicode-encoded asian text (i.e. CJK) without it. And box-drawing characters and other semi-graphical elements do not render properly. Again, the older package works fine, and since well over 90% of my xterm usage in cygwin involves connecting to a remote Linux/Unix box to do my real work, the lack of proper locales support (while mildly irritating) is not particularly a problem. Lack of Unicode/wide character support in xterm definitely is. FWIW, it would be great if locales and a proper IME like scim were supported, so I could actually type Unicode Asian characters from cygwin. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
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