[25656] in Athena Bugs
Re: xterm no longer correctly displays accented characters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Belmonte)
Sun May 23 18:54:02 2004
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 22:53:32 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200405220253.i4M2rWwe026318@biohazard-cafe.mit.edu>
From: belmonte@mit.edu (Matthew Belmonte)
To: ghudson@mit.edu (Greg Hudson)
cc: bugs@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
>I don't know of any change to the X fonts made in the past year that
>could explain this change, particularly one that applied to both Linux
>and Solaris.
>
>If you could forward us a sample message which exhibits this behavior,
>I'll look into it. The headers as well as the body of the message are
>relevant to this problem.
Thanks for your mail. Actually the problem isn't particular to mail; it
occurs with any attempt to display eight-bit characters in an xterm. If
you cat /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/b/e/belmonte/charset.txt in an xterm on
a current SGI system or on an older Solaris or GNU/Linux system, you'll
see accented characters in the rightmost column. If you cat the same
file in an xterm on a current Solaris or GNU/Linux system, you'll see a
column full of question marks.
I'd be happy to forward you a piece of mail with headers if it would be of
use want, but it seems to me that the nature of a document as mail isn't
what's relevant. All that's really necessary as a test case is an eight-bit
file such as /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/b/e/belmonte/charset.txt
Thanks for looking into this.
