Re: Paste from xterm with iso-8859-15 font does not work

Ilpo> I have LANG=C and LC_CTYPE=fi_FI＠euro. Paste with mouse from Ilpo> xterm that has iso-8859-15 font results as follows: You're using an XFree86 box, right? Ilpo> Hello World! %/1€iso8859-15 äÄöÖ¤ Yeah, this is the now standard XFree86 implementation that violates their own standards (see ICCCM, "Compound Text Encoding", which explicitly states that extended segments shall not be used for ISO 8859 character sets; it's even more nauseating in the XFree86 version of the manual, which amends the table of approved character sets to include not only ISO 8859/15, but ISO 8859/16 too), and implicitly declares that ISO 8859/15 is a non-standard character set that should only be used as a private communication protocol. Huh? But go read the ICCCM; that's what it says. We'll have to support this, but I am not at all happy about it. If you're thinking about sending a patch, I would strongly prefer one that attempts to negotiate for X Compound Text and UTF-8 first, and only as a last resort accepts this. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.