Thursday, November 30, 2017

Re: xterm(1) changing UTF-8 characters when copy-pasting?

Philippe Meunier <meunier@ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> So there seems to be two problems:
>
> - Copy-pasting the result of printf "e\xcc\x81\n" never works correctly in
> xterm, regardless of whether I use TrueType fonts or not. xterm
> copy-pastes the correct sequence of bytes but that sequence is not
> displayed correctly. That's the same problem I noticed in my previous
> email.
>
> - When using TrueType fonts, printf "e\xcc\x81\n" does not show the accent.

Are you using xterm(1) or uxterm(1)?

When I start uxterm I don't see these behaviors. I see the correct
accented e in all cases.

Allan

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