Debian Bug report logs - #469943
xterm: Unicode display problems

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Package: xterm; Maintainer for xterm is Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>; Source for xterm is src:xterm (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Josef Spillner <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 07:00:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed-upstream

Merged with 408666

Found in versions xterm/229-1, xterm/232-1, xterm/243-1

Fixed in version xterm/287-1

Done: Julien Cristau <[email protected]>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to [email protected], [email protected], Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>:
Bug#469943; Package xterm. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Josef Spillner <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to [email protected], Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Josef Spillner <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: xterm: Unicode display problems
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:58:34 +0100
Package: xterm
Version: 232-1
Severity: normal

If I invoke the application with
	uxterm -fa monospace -fs 12 -bg black -fg white
the settings match those provided by gnome-terminal by default.
Yet (u)xterm doesn't display some characters properly. Sometimes (with
fonts such as monospace) it at least hints at them being there by drawing
boxes, but with the Debian-provided default font and some other fonts it only
draws spaces. This affects for example the following greek letters:
	'ΩϡϿ'
With monospace the omega (Ω) is shown correctly, but the other two are
not. The same characters work fine in gnome-terminal.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.7-6          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1            2.5.0-2        generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.4-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20071103-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                    2:1.0.3-1+b1   X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-7      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   2:1.0.4-1      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6                  1:1.0.3-2      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                   2.1.12-2       FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   1:1.0.3-1      X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.5-3      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xbitmaps                  1.0.1-2        Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  x11-utils                     7.3+1      X11 utilities
ii  xutils                        1:7.3+3    X Window System utility programs m

-- no debconf information




Message sent on to Josef Spillner <[email protected]>:
Bug#469943. (Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:36:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #8 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: re: #469943 xterm: Unicode display problems
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:33:37 -0400
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
The explanation for that is that gnome terminal is loading other fonts
in addition to the monospace font - to fill in the missing characters.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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Merged 449480 469943. Request was from Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:30:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Merged 408666 449480 469943. Request was from Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:30:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Added tag(s) fixed-upstream. Request was from Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:27:08 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #15 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julien Cristau <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Bug#408666: fixed in xterm 287-1
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:47:57 +0000
Source: xterm
Source-Version: 287-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xterm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Julien Cristau <[email protected]> (supplier of updated xterm package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing [email protected])


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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:27:28 +0100
Source: xterm
Binary: xterm
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 287-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Julien Cristau <[email protected]>
Description: 
 xterm      - X terminal emulator
Closes: 359006 408666 683942 691642 694375
Changes: 
 xterm (287-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release (closes: #694375)
     - add alternateScroll resource and corresponding control sequences which
       modify the scroll-forw and scroll-back actions: when the alternate
       screen is displayed, wheel mouse up/down will send cursor keys (closes:
       #683942)
     - improve rendering for the case when a Unicode character is absent in the
       bold font but present in the normal font by temporarily falling back to
       the normal font (closes: #359006, #408666)
     - check for misconfigured printerCommand resource on the first use, warn
       and disable it if it does not specify an executable command (closes:
       #691642)
   * Drop upstream patches.
   * Refresh remaining patches.
   * Explicitly set --with-desktop-category to avoid desktop-file-install
     failure.
   * Enable backarrowKeyIsErase in configure instead of 900_debian_xterm.diff.
   * Install png/svg icons.
   * Change xterm.man's NAME section to keep whatis(1) happy.
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Disconnected #449480 from all other report(s). Request was from Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:45:08 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Tue, 25 Jun 2013 07:34:45 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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