[25649] in Athena Bugs
xterm no longer correctly displays accented characters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Belmonte)
Tue May 18 17:52:29 2004
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 17:47:34 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200405182147.i4ILlYGF003397@multics.mit.edu>
From: belmonte@mit.edu (Matthew Belmonte)
To: bugs@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
I have a French colleague with whom I often exchange mail in French. It used
to be the case, till sometime within the past year, that French accents
(specified by eight-bit character codes) within this mail would be correctly
displayed on Athena workstations. More recently, however, all character codes
greater than 0x7f display as '?'. (I'm using SIPB pine to display my incoming
mail.) Obviously this makes mail more difficult to read, and more difficult to
compose. Has there been some change to the installed X11 fonts that may be
responsible for this behaviour? Is there any possibility of bringing back the
capability to display accented characters, in a future release?
Significantly, an O2 running the latest available Athena release for SGI's
does display these characters correctly. It's only the Suns and Linux
machines -- for which the most current release is a later one -- that do not.
I realise that I should have asked about this at the time that I first saw the
change in behaviour. But I was hosed then, and too busy to worry about fonts.
If this means that my question gets punted, I understand.
