From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 26 11:11:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FCA116A401 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:11:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [207.192.128.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1970143D67 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:11:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id k5QBB13F005384; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:11:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dickey@localhost) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id k5QBB1MU005383; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:11:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:11:01 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey To: Alexander Leidinger Message-ID: <20060626111100.GA1808@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> <20060626125625.s899sqa99wcg8ssw@netchild.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jI8keyz6grp/JLjh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060626125625.s899sqa99wcg8ssw@netchild.homeip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "J.R. Oldroyd" , "Matthew D. Fuller" Subject: Re: Unicode (was Re: Updating ncurses in base) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:11:03 -0000 --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:56:25PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >(xterm inherits its locale from the environment - as a cursory reading > >of uxterm would reveal -) >=20 > 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 That sounds as if you overrode the font resources to use a proportional fon= t, or attempted to use TrueType fonts without having them setup properly. (gnome uses separate configuration data for the latter). > terminals did show the same locale related content in "printenv". =2E..also (it would be nice to have documentation for gnome-terminal), I've observed that it tries to setup UTF-8 support whether or not the locale is set for UTF-8. (This makes it fail number of screens in vttest in interesting ways). --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFEn8DCtIqByHxlDocRAo0UAJ9aPXdt1VBDQNZXwc/a7ORg4ICNrACgmGzn 6Nv24737zFAUBNGrI3rJz9U= =xJDb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh--