On Tue Jan 6 20:12:23 2026, [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 07:10:35PM +0100, Jorgen Grahn wrote: > > Package: xterm > > Version: 398-1 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: l10n > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > I upgraded to Debian 13 the other day, and afterwards, switching > > to/from UTF-8 text in xterm behaves differently. ...
> > I should probably also disclose that I do my daily terminal work in > > sv_SE, i.e. a non-utf8 locale. I have 35 years' worth of iso8859-1 > > data which I don't fancy converting. I only switch to a UTF-8 locale > > when I ssh to the host where I read my mail. I open a new xterm > > dedicated to this, use the xterm menu to select "UTF-8 Encoding" and > > "UTF-8 Fonts", and then: > > > > % LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 ssh -t aphanes mutt > > > > Aphanes runs OpenBSD, thus the odd locale names. That last part was nonsense; sorry. I remember locale names were different in OpenBSD at some point, but they're not now, and there's nothing odd about these. > > Anyway this should > > not be relevant to my problem -- unless you feel starting a non-UTF-8 > > xterm is unsupported. > > In a quick check (since I have lots of versions compiled...) I see the > change in #390 (almost two years ago). There's nothing specific to this > feature in that change, but side-effects happen. Digging a little further > I see that change in xterm-389h, which deals with UPSS. I see a few > obscure possible (nothing definite), but with the clue from your report > that a "reset" makes it workable, I can probably extend the chunk that > does the switching to fill in whatever's needed. > > As a workaround, this works for me: > > tput rs2 > > and doesn't clear the screen. I adapted one of my test-scripts to do this > along with the UTF-8 switching (see attached). ... Thanks for investigating! I should add that I have now opted for another workaround: I simply have a window manager menu option which starts an xterm in an UTF-8 locale, and I'll use that one for e.g. reading my mail. I don't really have a use case for toggling in a specific terminal. But the xterm people might want to know there's an issue with toggling. Unless you're one of them, in which case they already know. :-) /Jorgen -- // Jörgen Grahn | mot du jour: trotjänaravlivning \X/ <[email protected]> |
