On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> writes:
But in the past couple of weeks, I've been installing a new machine, and
noticed -on a couple of other Linux's- that there's some breakage
in luit which may be related (if you didn't happen to have the Latin-1 locale
installed, for instance).
I use a UTF-8 locale, so luit isn't involved. Further investigation
revealed that the relevant upgrade was not of xterm (from version 255,
FTR) but of ncurses-base; the addition of rmm and smm settings to
xterm's terminfo entry somehow caused xterm to ignore the
eightBitInput resource. (There are some other differences as well,
mostly in k* settings, but those look most likely to be the culprit.)
That's already been discussed in SuSE - it's an issue with bash.
It should allow the decision whether to enable meta mode to be
configurable. bash's maintainer hasn't been cooperative.
see
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_21
(the interaction with bash's maintainer, unfortunately, is mostly in
private email among me and the SuSE maintainers)
I'm leaving this bug assigned to xterm anyway, both because I'm not
convinced that that change should have had such an effect and because
ncurses gets its xterm terminfo definition from xterm's sources. (The
latest update claims to have taken xterm-246's definition.)
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Thomas E. Dickey
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