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0002968

[xterm] regular use

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always

2008-12-10 15:27

2014-02-14 15:57

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skayser

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skayser

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normal

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fixed

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closed

Summary

0002968: Encoding options (-u8, -lc) documented but not supported

Description

The man page documents various encoding related options that are _not_ supported by the provided xterm binary. Could you please enable these options (i guess --enable-i18n and/or --enable-wide-chars should do the trick)?

$ man -M /opt/csw/share/man xterm

     ...

     -lc Turn on support of various encodings according to
             the users' locale setting, i.e., LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE,
             or LANG environment variables. This is achieved by
             turning on UTF-8 mode and by invoking luit for

     ...

     -u8 This option sets the utf8 resource. When utf8 is
             set, xterm interprets incoming data as UTF-8. This
             sets the wideChars resource as a side-effect, but
             the UTF-8 mode set by this option prevents it from

     ...

$ /opt/csw/bin/xterm -u8
/opt/csw/bin/xterm: bad command line option "-u8"

$ /opt/csw/bin/xterm -lc
/opt/csw/bin/xterm: bad command line option "-lc"

Additional Information

$ pkginfo -x CSWxterm
CSWxterm xterm - The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System
(i386) 235,REV=2008.05.27

$ xterm -v
XTerm(235)

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(0005952) skayser (administrator) 2009-04-10 11:12	Updated version (243) including UTF-8 support has been pushed to current. xterm-243,REV=2009.04.09-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz xterm-243,REV=2009.04.09-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz Support for other locales via luit is not yet available. luit is part of XFree86, but Sun only ships it starting with nv_85. Will have to see whether to --enable-mini-luit in xterm or compile a stand-alone luit version.