Anthony J. Bentley wrote: >I get the same result, but only when using TrueType fonts (default or no).
If I use TrueType fonts: $ printf "e\xcc\x81\n" only shows the letter 'e', and when I try to copy-paste it I get a letter 'e' followed by a question mark inside a circle. If I then redraw the line I get an 'e' by itself but od(1) shows that it is still e\xcc\x81. Using TrueType fonts: $ printf "\xc3\xa9\n" works fine and I can copy-paste the accented 'e' without problem. ======== Without TrueType fonts: $ printf "e\xcc\x81\n" works fine but when I try to copy-paste the accented 'e' I get a letter 'e' followed by a question mark inside a circle. If I then redraw the line I get the correct accented 'e' again (which od(1) shows is still e\xcc\x81). Without TrueType fonts: $ printf "\xc3\xa9\n" works fine and I can copy-paste the accented 'e' without problem. ======== So there seems to be two problems: - Copy-pasting the result of printf "e\xcc\x81\n" never works correctly in xterm, regardless of whether I use TrueType fonts or not. xterm copy-pastes the correct sequence of bytes but that sequence is not displayed correctly. That's the same problem I noticed in my previous email. - When using TrueType fonts, printf "e\xcc\x81\n" does not show the accent. On a note related to this second problem, I never use TrueType fonts in xterm anyway because then xterm can't display Thai or Chinese or Korean characters (at least with the default font; I haven't tried to use any other font). So I suspect that this second problem is more a font problem than an xterm bug. Here's my current config: $ xrdb -query xterm*background: black xterm*foreground: white xterm*metaSendsEscape: true xterm*multiScroll: true xterm*precompose: false xterm*saveLines: 256 xterm*scrollBar: true xterm*scrollKey: true xterm*scrollTtyOutput: false xterm*utf8Title: true xterm*utmpInhibit: true xterm*visualBell: true and: $ set | egrep -i utf LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 XTERM_LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8 Philippe
