On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> Don't you need the -u8 option for xterm, in the absence of an equivalent
> line in .Xresources?
The -u8 was a temporary hack needed 2 years ago before glibc 2.2 with
UTF-8 locale support was around. It is obsolete now, except on other
operating systems (namely: FreeBSD) that still didn't have UTF-8 locales
last time I checked. If you set the locale, then not only xterm but also
all processes started inside will be informed that you want UTF-8. That's
much neater as it replaces zillions of command line options to activate a
separate UTF-8 mode for each single tool.
Markus
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