Hello, I've noticed something unexpected when copy-pasting UTF-8 characters in xterm: xterm seems to change some of the characters into something different but visually similar. Here's an example (using ksh):
$ uname -a OpenBSD foo.my.domain 6.1 GENERIC#19 i386 $ ls Thérèse $ ls | od -c 0000000 T h e 314 201 r e 314 200 s e \n 0000014 $ cp Thérèse Thérèse This copy command is typed as follows: type 'cp ', press tab for ksh to auto-complete the first filename, another space, then use the mouse to copy-paste the first filename into xterm to get the second filename. The cp command works without any error. The result is: $ ls Thérèse Thérèse $ ls | od -c 0000000 T h e 314 201 r e 314 200 s e \n T h 303 251 0000020 r 303 250 s e \n 0000026 Note how the two filenames look exactly the same but are actually different byte sequences... So it looks like xterm is changing e 314 201 into 303 251 and e 314 200 into 303 250 when copy-pasting... which was rather a surprise to me. I'm pretty sure the problem is with xterm, not with ksh, because the same thing happens with bash (using a similar xterm and using bash through ssh to a Linux machine). Is this normal / expected? For info: $ cat .Xdefaults xterm*background: black xterm*foreground: white xterm*metaSendsEscape: true xterm*multiScroll: true xterm*saveLines: 256 xterm*scrollBar: true xterm*scrollKey: true xterm*scrollTtyOutput: false xterm*utf8Title: true xterm*utmpInhibit: true xterm*visualBell: true $ set | egrep -i utf LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 XTERM_LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8 Thanks, Philippe
