On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:28:11AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:09:57AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > Would it be sensible and acceptable to have xterm default to
> > using the encoding of the user's locale at startup? Seems to be
>
> only if you happen to be running redhat 8.x
TBH there are really two problems here.
In my opinion, Red Hat 8's UTF8 support definitely needs work... ssh
into a redhat box and run "man <blah>", and watch it display poorly
due to incorrect UTF8 assumptions. There are clearly many cases of
"I assume everybody is 100% UTF8", which is flat out wrong.
That said... in a modern POSIX environment with standard
locale-related environment variables, I would hope that xterm takes
those environment settings into account. If you don't like doing
that unconditionally for all xterm platforms, a POSIXly-correct build
option would certainly work.
Jeff
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