Re: Unicode (was Re: Updating ncurses in base)

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:18:08PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
Well, uxterm is just a shell script, an so amenable to quick tests.
Running it with sh -x basically yields (trimming uninteresting bits)

+ LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
+ export LC_CTYPE
+ exec xterm -class UXTerm -title uxterm -u8

which is what triggers my problem when I do it manually (`env
LC_CTYPE=... xterm`).

The -u8 option in combination with the locale setting is needed to make
xterm process UTF-8 (and also the -class option helps it to find the
proper fonts).

Oddly enough (depending on your perspective of course),
there are people who use xterm in UTF-8 with/without
the initial locale settings.

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