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  • Bug#266336: xterm changes meta-X to meta-8 in en_US.UTF-8 locale

    From Andrew Moise@1:229/2 to All on Tue Aug 17 18:00:15 2004
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    From: [email protected]

    Package: xterm
    Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6
    Severity: normal

    When I run emacs inside an xterm which was started in the en_US.UTF-8 locale, and press alt-X, emacs seems to receive a meta-8 keypress instead of a meta-X keypress. When I start the xterm in the en_US.ISO-8859-1 locale instead, alt-X is correctly received as meta-X (as it is when I run emacs in its own X window).
    This sounds like it could be related to #135075, BTW.

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 3.1
    APT prefers unstable
    APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
    Architecture: i386 (i686)
    Kernel: Linux 2.6.7+mppe
    Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

    Versions of packages xterm depends on:
    ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libexpat1 1.95.6-8 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
    ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Athena widget set library
    ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X pixmap library
    ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Toolkit Intrinsics
    ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m ii xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client data

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  • From Michelle Konzack@1:229/2 to All on Tue Aug 17 22:30:11 2004
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    Am 2004-08-17 11:43:52, schrieb Andrew Moise:
    Package: xterm
    Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6
    Severity: normal

    When I run emacs inside an xterm which was started in the en_US.UTF-8 locale,
    and press alt-X, emacs seems to receive a meta-8 keypress instead of a meta-X keypress. When I start the xterm in the en_US.ISO-8859-1 locale instead, alt-X
    is correctly received as meta-X (as it is when I run emacs in its own X window).
    This sounds like it could be related to #135075, BTW.


    I have the same BUG, if I use xterm instead of uxterm
    (which is an xterm called with another "class" for UTF-8)

    So do you have tried uxterm ?

    Oh yes, I am using "de_DE.UTF-8".

    Greetings
    Michelle

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  • From Andrew Moise@1:229/2 to Michelle Konzack on Tue Aug 17 23:00:12 2004
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    On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 16:14, Michelle Konzack wrote:
    I have the same BUG, if I use xterm instead of uxterm
    (which is an xterm called with another "class" for UTF-8)

    So do you have tried uxterm ?

    Yes, I normally use uxterm. With uxterm I get this problem regardless
    of the setting of LANG/LC_ALL, but seeing as uxterm resets the locale in non-trivial ways that's not surprising :-).
    For "xterm -class UXTerm -title 'uxterm' -u8" (which is the command
    uxterm runs, after mucking with the locale settings), the behavior is
    exactly identical to what I reported -- en_US.UTF-8 shows the bug, but en_US.ISO-8859-1 does not.



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