On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:03:23AM -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: > > Thomas, > > The output of locale (invoked without arguments) is as follows, > between the two lines. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > kilgota@khayyam:/etc/X11/app-defaults$ locale |less > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE=C > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > -------------------------------------------------------------------
Those settings should work (the important ones are LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE, LANG). > There is a line called "line-drawing characters" which is *not* > turned on. It is unclear to me what this does (see the xterm man > page for an explanation, which is not totally clear). What it might > be doing is turning on the line-drawing characters from X itself, to > replace the ones which are provided by the font, or alternatively > what it might be doing is enabling the line-drawing characters which > are already provided by the font. As I said, the explanation in the > man page is not very clear and these two meanings are obviously > opposite to each other. In any event, to toggle this setting on and > off all by itself, when other settings are not changed, seems to > have no effect. > > There are also lines in that menu for UTF-8 Encoding, UTF-8 Fonts, > and UTF-8 Titles. These are also apparently not turned on (no check > marks in front). > > Setting UTF-Encoding *and* UTF-8 Fonts *and* Line-Drawing Characters > all to be on seems to solve the problem. But by default all three of > them are turned off. > > Why are all three of these settings turned off by default? I have no Line-Drawing is normally turned off because a well-designed font will look better than xterm's built-in equivalent (since it may use thick lines for large characters). UTF-8 Fonts would be turned on if you used the "uxterm" shell script to setup xterm, which gives better coverage of Unicode. UTF-8 Encoding isn't on either because there's some problem with the locale _tables_ or due to a resource setting. If you have "appres" installed, you may see the problem in the output of "appres XTerm". > idea. In particular, this is even more amazing because it seems to > be in conflict with the locale settings displayed above. So, in > order to get back to the bottom of this problem it seems to me that > what needs to be done is to set up a way to turn all three of these > settings on. However, I do not know what I am supposed to do in > order to carry that out. Change some configuration file, I suppose, > or else do a local override. But I suspect that the settings are > already set correctly in some file somewhere and that somehow the > settings in that file are being ignored. I'd try using the "uxterm" script (it's supposed to do most of the fixes you need). -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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