Re: ncurses or slang [Re: UTF-8 support status.]

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Dickey wrote on 2002-02-03 16:28 UTC:
> > Er, xterm shouldn't honor ACS controls in UTF-8 mode.  One of the reasons I
> > like UTF-8 as a terminal encoding is that they don't explode if I accidentally
> > dump random binary data to it, which I tend to do at least once a day. :)
> 
> hm (doesn't explode).

When I execute in the UTF-8-mode xterm [XFree86 4.0.1h(149)] of Red Hat
7.1 in a shell the line

  printf '\x1b(0'

then xterm changes the Unicode values U+0020 to U+007E to the DEC
graphics character set, even though it is supposed to ignore ISO 2022
sequences while being in UTF-8 mode, because UTF-8 is one of the
"encodings outside ISO 2022" in the sense of ISO 2022.

Has this bug been fixed in more recent versions of xterm?

Markus

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