On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> 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 It is obsolete now, except on other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.
Forgive my ignorance, but redhat 7.1 has for X11 the locale directory
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8 and for glibc the locale directory
/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8 . Is there a difference between the suffix UTF-8 and
utf8? will xterm recognize the latter?
Best,
Zvi.
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