[25657] in Athena Bugs
Re: xterm no longer correctly displays accented characters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun May 23 19:46:08 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Matthew Belmonte <belmonte@mit.edu>
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On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 22:53, Matthew Belmonte wrote:
> 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.
Are you sure you mean xterm here, and not gnome-terminal? Some testing
suggests to me that gnome-terminal displays '?' characters when it
doesn't know what to do, and xterm just displays nothing.
I can confirm your symptoms with gnome-terminal on a 9.2 Linux machine.
I think this summer's 9.3 release may improve the situation, at least on
Linux. I will (ideally) do some more thorough testing on Tuesday and
get back to you with a better answer.
