Re: Updated: xterm-238-1

[Thomas Wolff <mined at towo dot net>]

> On 2009/02/20 20:24, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > please add the following configure options to the xterm package:
> > 
> > --enable-wide-chars to provide a UTF-8 environment for applications that need to use it
> > 
> > --enable-256-color


> 	Both options are already enabled in xterm-238-1.
> (Try installing the xterm-238-1 source package and see
> /usr/src/xterm-238-1.cygport .)
> For more information on how to enable utf8 resource, see
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2008-12/msg00079.html


I see, thanks. This makes it a little troublesome to invoke xterm 
in enforced UTF-8 mode in a portable way, since on some other systems, 
+lc is not supported or -en UTF-8 doesn't even start the xterm (blinks up 
and terminates on my Linux system).
Anyway, checking this I noticed one other problem:


On cygwin, the uxterm script (which is supposed to invoke xterm and 
ensure UTF-8 mode) actually invokes:
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 xterm.exe -class UXTerm -title uxterm -u8

But xterm is configured on cygwin so that
xterm -u8 has no effect but
xterm +lc -u8 is needed (for whatever reason) to enforce UTF-8 support


The effect is that the xterm started with uxterm on cygwin has the same 
bug as LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 xterm +u8 on other systems:

Output is 8-bit, input is UTF-8.


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Kind regards,
Thomas

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