Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by default

[Sven Luther]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 01:51:00PM +0100, David Martínez Moreno wrote:
> El viernes, 2 de diciembre de 2005 09:56, Jan Willem Stumpel escribió:
> > Package: xterm
> > Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: l10n
> >
> >
> > xterm -u8 does not start xterm in UTF-8 mode, nor does specifying
> > xterm*VT100*utf8: in ~/.Xresources make xterm start in UTF-8 mode by
> > default.
> >
> > Xterm can be switched to UTF-8 manually (control-rightclick) in both cases,
> > but I'd like it to be in UTF-8 mode by default. This is possible with xterm
> > version 200, but not with the current Sid version (202).
> 
>       Could you please test latest version (204-0pre1) from experimental and 
> see if 
> it works? It works for me (I use ISO8859-15):

Notice that some locales have shifted to UTF-8 by default for etch (like
french, but i think a couple other european languages too, i saw it in
german too i think). Will xterm default to the right thing in this case ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther