On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 08:19:29AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > A am using C on the shell: > > % env | egrep LANG\|LC > LC_ALL=C > LANG=C > > The ctrl-right-mouse-button memu shows no mark at > utf-encoding and ut-font, either. > > I do not see what pbuilder uses inside, but should this > matter? Any guess about the used locale might be wrong. > I don't expect xterm to output _everything_. It just > shouldn't refuse to output 7bit ASCII.
However, your example isn't 7bit ASCII. It contains 8 non-ASCII bytes
(all from the 128-255 range).
One of those bytes is 0x9f, which happens to be a C1 control character.
xterm has an option allowing you to suppress this behavior:
-k8 This option sets the allowC1Printable resource. When
allowC1Printable is set, xterm overrides the mapping of C1 con‐
trol characters (code 128-159) to treat them as printable.
but the 0x9f would not produce output in this case unless your font happened
to be one of the less-used ones that provides a glyph in that position.
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