Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: xterm
xterm misinterpretes some characters and writes junk text to the
terminal under the followign conditions:
1. The prompt contains special charachters, in this test case german umlauts
2. The text printed from a command (shell built-in, program, script, etc.) does
not end with a line break
Steps to reproduce:
Start xterm or any terminal emulator relying on it (e.g. gnome-
terminal), then create or cd into a directory containing an umlaut (e.g.
Ü11). Run a command that generates a one-line output of text, e.g. "echo
-n Hello".
Expecgted behaviour: The output text is printed in front of the next
line's command line prompt with the input mark behind the prompt
Current behaviour: Text is not printed, instead, parts of the prompt are
printed behind it and after the input mark
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 24 09:18:34 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E5500
Package: xterm 243-1ubuntu1
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.31-19-generic
root=UUID=d2ab955b-802d-4e3e-8b90-3453e5af04f4 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2.1
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xterm
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-settings-daemon:2300): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion
`src != NULL' failed
(gnome-settings-daemon:2300): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion
`src != NULL' failed
(nautilus:2404): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion
`preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2429): GLib-CRITICAL **:
g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
(thunderbird-bin:2948): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
dmi.bios.date: 08/11/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A13
dmi.board.name: 0DW634
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA13:bd08/11/2009:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE5500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0DW634:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E5500
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
distro: Ubuntu
architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.31-19-generic
** Affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: xterm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526894
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