On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:25:52AM -0700, Kevin Brown wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:20:07AM +0200, Kevin Brown wrote: > >>Hmm...well, my locale is "POSIX". In other words, I don't set one. The > >>reason I don't set one is that terminal programs such as xterm aren't > >>aware of UTF-8 and don't properly render certain punctuation characters > >>when the locale is set to en_US.UTF-8. > > > >xterm's supported UTF-8 for several years (the "uxterm" script is an > >example of how to set it up). > > > >regarding "certain punctuation characters", your comment gives no clues. > > Oh, excellent, that's exactly what I needed. That option wasn't widely > available on Linux when I first ran into this problem.
It's been there a while - see
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_137
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> The "certain punctuation characters" include, but are not limited to,
> hyphens, quotes, and apostrophes.
the non-ASCII ones, of course...
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