Package: xterm Version: 4.3.0-0pre1v4 Many TrueType fonts don't have both a hyphen (0x2010) and a minus sign (0x2212); however, groff (and thus man pages) differentiates between the two in UTF-8 locales. This results in lots of man pages displaying ugly boxes where hyphens should be in a uxterm, but displaying fine on a 'normal' xterm where there is no distinction between the two characters.
uxterm should display hyphens and minus signs as a simple ASCII "-" (0x002D, "hyphen-minus") if the font does not contain the requested character. In fact, it would probably be useful if xterm had some kind of more general character substitution mechanism for this kind of problem. Cameron. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux erdos 2.4.21-cjp-erdos-3 #1 Sun Aug 24 01:18:50 WST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 Versions of packages xterm depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libexpat1 1.95.6-6 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.2.1-8 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.5-3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libxaw7 4.2.1-13 X Athena widget set library ii libxft2 2.1.2-4 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxrender1 0.8.3-4 X Rendering Extension client libra ii xlibs [libxpm4] 4.3.0-0pre1v4 X Window System client libraries -- no debconf information
