Quoting Thomas Dickey <dickey_at_radix.net> (from Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:27:24 -0400): > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:58:40AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> >> Summary: maybe most people just use something else in case they >> need/want UTF-8, and they don't bother to fight with xterm because >> they just want something which works. So don't be surprised if this is >> a bug in xterm. > > then again - considering the source, perhaps not. > > (xterm inherits its locale from the environment - as a cursory reading > of uxterm would reveal -) In my case the environment consists of a gnome session started with gdm, LANG set to de_DE.UTF-8 and LC_NUMMERIC set to C. Starting an uxterm didn't satisfy me (AFAIR: ugly font rendering, too much spaces between characters for all fonts I tried), starting a gnome terminal did (sort of, IMHO it's too large, but I got around it). Both terminals did show the same locale related content in "printenv". Bye, Alexander. -- Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander _at_ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild _at_ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137Received on Mon Jun 26 2006 - 08:56:26 UTC
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