On 2016-03-07, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > Consequently, in the interest of safe and sane defaults, i propose > switching our xterm(1) to enable UTF-8 mode by default.
Seconded. > The best place to switch is in the setup function VTInitialize_locale() > that decides whether to enable UTF-8 mode and which supporting flags > to set, by pretending to it that CODESET is always UTF-8, but without > interfering with the actual value of the CODESET and without changing > the utility function xtermEnvUTF8(). Hmm, maybe you are overthinking this. Other defaults that we set differently from upstream are simply resource changes to XTerm.ad (/usr/X11R6/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm). ---- PS: > printf "\303\237\n" # thanks to sobrado@ for the striking example > Now your local terminal hangs until you force a reset using the > menus of the xterm program. \237 is 0x9F, equivalent to ESC _, which is APC (Application Program Command). That appears in a table, but is not explained in the VT220 manual. The VT420 manual says: "The VT420 ignores all following characters until it receives a SUB, ST, or any other C1 control character." -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
