Unicode (was Re: Updating ncurses in base)

[Alexander Leidinger]

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.

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