Xterm fails character sets test in vttest

[Kevin Lamonte]

Binary package hint: xterm

Xterm version 229 produces two incorrect glyphs in the vttest version 2.7 (20030301) "Test of character sets". Specifically, the British pound symbol is not displayed in place of '#' on the UK / National character set, and the carriage-return character (a drawn CR, Unicode symbol u+240D) in the Special Graphics character set is blank. The British pound symbol is displayed correctly in the Special Graphics character set.

This occurs with LANG=C, LANG=en_US, LANG=en_US.UTF-8 . It also is independent of the font.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

Xterm has historically been very accurate with vttest. I am quite surprised to see this.

[Thomas Dickey (dickey-his)]

I hadn't noticed the u+240D (will investigate that).

The '#' is a different case - it's due to a check added in the original UTF-8 changes in 1999/04/25,
to prevent xterm from translating Unicode to the National Replacement Characters (like ISO-8859-1).
I'll improve this combination - hadn't had my attention draw to it..

[Wouter van Heyst (larstiq)]

According to the changelog for version 236 of xterm, this bug should be fixed in that version. Doesn't seem to be in Debian yet unfortunately.

[Thomas Dickey (dickey-his)]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Wouter van Heyst wrote:

> According to the changelog for version 236 of xterm, this bug should be
> fixed in that version. Doesn't seem to be in Debian yet unfortunately.

yes (I don't recall seeing it updated yet in Debian - checked the
package page and it's not there).

>
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[Julien Cristau (jcristau)]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 15:47:00 -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Wouter van Heyst wrote:
>
> > According to the changelog for version 236 of xterm, this bug should be
> > fixed in that version. Doesn't seem to be in Debian yet unfortunately.
>
> yes (I don't recall seeing it updated yet in Debian - checked the
> package page and it's not there).
>
I'll try to get to it soon, but since we're frozen for release at the
moment, this hasn't been a priority.

Cheers,
Julien

[Thomas Dickey (dickey-his)]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 15:47:00 -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Wouter van Heyst wrote:
>>
>>> According to the changelog for version 236 of xterm, this bug should be
>>> fixed in that version. Doesn't seem to be in Debian yet unfortunately.
>>
>> yes (I don't recall seeing it updated yet in Debian - checked the
>> package page and it's not there).
>>
> I'll try to get to it soon, but since we're frozen for release at the
> moment, this hasn't been a priority.

hmm (it has been a month, and dialog - more recent - is updated).

thanks

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[Julien Cristau (jcristau)]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 16:46:40 -0000, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 15:47:00 -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> >
> > > According to the changelog for version 236 of xterm, this bug should be
> > > fixed in that version. Doesn't seem to be in Debian yet unfortunately.
> >
> > yes (I don't recall seeing it updated yet in Debian - checked the
> > package page and it's not there).
> >
> I'll try to get to it soon, but since we're frozen for release at the
> moment, this hasn't been a priority.
>
Uploaded now, sorry for the delay.

Cheers,
Julien

[Thomas Dickey (dickey-his)]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 16:46:40 -0000, Julien Cristau wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 15:47:00 -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Wouter van Heyst wrote:
>>>
>>>> According to the changelog for version 236 of xterm, this bug should be
>>>> fixed in that version. Doesn't seem to be in Debian yet unfortunately.
>>>
>>> yes (I don't recall seeing it updated yet in Debian - checked the
>>> package page and it's not there).
>>>
>> I'll try to get to it soon, but since we're frozen for release at the
>> moment, this hasn't been a priority.
>>
> Uploaded now, sorry for the delay.

thanks (report bugs)

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[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automated message]

Hi kevin-lamonte,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xterm - 237-1ubuntu1

---------------
xterm (237-1ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining Ubuntu changes:
    - Enabled URL hilighting
    - Maintainer field
    - rm -rf for .pc patches
  * Closes (LP: #301451)

xterm (237-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: don't fail in patch if the patches are already applied; also
    create the patch stamp in the same way as the other stamp files
    (closes: #498327). Thanks, Petr Salinger!
  * New upstream release.

xterm (236-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Brice Goglin ]
  * Update patches to not use -p0, closes: #485360.

  [ Julien Cristau ]
  * New upstream release.
    + fixes for vt100-style character sets in UTF-8 mode (LP: #230919)
  * Handle parallel=n in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
  * Don't call dh_makeshlibs.
  * Configure with --enable-dabbrev (closes: #454202).
  * Update copyright date to 2008 in debian/copyright for Thomas E. Dickey's
    contributions.

 -- Ryan Kavanagh <email address hidden> Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:15:10 -0500