Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:56:25 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com>, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Subject: Re: Unicode (was Re: Updating ncurses in base) Message-ID: <20060626125625.s899sqa99wcg8ssw@netchild.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20060626102724.GA17962@saltmine.radix.net> References: <6eb82e0606091906j7d9f69aarcf1f9738c7565677@mail.gmail.com> <20060625221640.GI48766@linwhf.opal.com> <20060626014939.GA74292@over-yonder.net> <20060626115840.vrmox3wo0gg08gog@netchild.homeip.net> <20060626102724.GA17962@saltmine.radix.net>
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Quoting Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> (from Mon, 26 Jun 2006 =20 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 =20 gdm, LANG set to de_DE.UTF-8 and LC_NUMMERIC set to C. Starting an =20 uxterm didn't satisfy me (AFAIR: ugly font rendering, too much spaces =20 between characters for all fonts I tried), starting a gnome terminal =20 did (sort of, IMHO it's too large, but I got around it). Both =20 terminals did show the same locale related content in "printenv". Bye, Alexander. --=20 Bradley's Bromide: =09If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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