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Comment 2 for bug 526893

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Thomas Dickey (dickey-his) wrote : Re: [Bug 526893] [NEW] xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Dominik George wrote:

> 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

Sounds like a problem with one of (a) the user's configuration, or (b) the
shell. Not a bug in xterm.

>
> 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.

indeed "any terminal emulator"

> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/zsh

Is this the actual shell? If so, it should be reassigned to that package.

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