On 20 Feb 2003, Gerd Knorr wrote:

>> Knowing my locales; encondings should not be in a locale! (Since the
>> user can override them)
>
>The encoding _is_ in the locale.  Allowing the user to override it is
>a design bug (de_DE@euro with iso-8859-1 isn't going to work ...).
>Use the correct locale instead, there are different ones for different
>encodings:
>
>   E199 kraxel ~# LANG=POSIX locale charmap
>   ANSI_X3.4-1968
>   E199 kraxel ~# LANG=de_DE locale charmap
>   ISO-8859-1
>   E199 kraxel ~# LANG=de_DE@euro locale charmap
>   ISO-8859-15
>   E199 kraxel ~# LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 locale charmap
>   UTF-8
>   E199 kraxel ~# 
>
>And, yes, of course xterm should start up in utf-8 mode if the locale
>encoding is UTF-8.

Thanks, that was my original conclusion also.  I had just 
wondered why it doesn't.  Just an xterm bug I guess.



-- 
Mike A. Harris


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