Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
> give me (on my system) an xterm which understands UTF-8 by default > (without setting it manually). So I am still baffled. E.g., both > display UTF-8 e with sharp accent as A with tilde followed by an > 'at' sign. My locale is en_GB.UTF-8. So far my only solution is to > downgrade to version

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 03:31:21PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > >UTF-8 encoding. So I don't think that's what you want (though > >it was what Thomas Wolff requested). > > Do you mean the author of the mined editor? yes. > >Supposing that your locale is set to a UTF-8 one such as > >de_DE.

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-03 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Thomas Dickey wrote: [..] So the next question is how to use this information. From the commandline, I could type xterm -xrm '*locale:false' -u8 but of course that gets tedious. I generally have my $HOME/bin before other directories in $PATH, so it would be simple to write a shell script tha

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 01:19:24PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > >I already responded to this in > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318923 > > Yes.. but I did not understand it and I also had the impression > that in that thread, two differe

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-03 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Thomas Dickey wrote: I already responded to this in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318923 Yes.. but I did not understand it and I also had the impression that in that thread, two different bugs were being discussed. also see the manpage: -u8 This option sets

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:10:10PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > David Mart??nez Moreno wrote: > > > > >Could you please test latest version (204-0pre1) from > >experimental and see if it works? It works for me (I use > >ISO8859-15): > > No, it does not work. I have to set UTF-8 manually jus

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:10:11PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 02:23:32PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Notice that some locales have shifted to UTF-8 by default for etch (like > > french, but i think a couple other european languages too, i saw it in > > german too i thin

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-02 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 02:51:58PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > It it true that 204 has the binary in /usr/bin? It has always been > in /usr/X11/bin. /usr/X11R6/bin is happily going away in the Xorg 7.0 release, which we're currently working on packaging. X will finally be FHS compliant!

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-02 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
David Martínez Moreno wrote: Could you please test latest version (204-0pre1) from experimental and see if it works? It works for me (I use ISO8859-15): No, it does not work. I have to set UTF-8 manually just like with version 202. Version 200 is OK. It it true that 204 has the binary in /us

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-02 Thread Denis Barbier
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 02:23:32PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Notice that some locales have shifted to UTF-8 by default for etch (like > french, but i think a couple other european languages too, i saw it in > german too i think). Will xterm default to the right thing in this case ? I do not reme

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 01:51:00PM +0100, David Martínez Moreno wrote: > El viernes, 2 de diciembre de 2005 09:56, Jan Willem Stumpel escribió: > > Package: xterm > > Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: l10n > > > > > > xterm -u8 does not start xterm in UTF-8 mode, nor does spec

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-02 Thread David Martínez Moreno
El viernes, 2 de diciembre de 2005 09:56, Jan Willem Stumpel escribió: > Package: xterm > Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 > Severity: normal > Tags: l10n > > > xterm -u8 does not start xterm in UTF-8 mode, nor does specifying > xterm*VT100*utf8: in ~/.Xresources make xterm start in UTF-8 mode by > default

Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

2005-12-02 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Package: xterm Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 Severity: normal Tags: l10n xterm -u8 does not start xterm in UTF-8 mode, nor does specifying xterm*VT100*utf8: in ~/.Xresources make xterm start in UTF-8 mode by default. Xterm can be switched to UTF-8 manually (control-rightclick) in both cases, but I