Bug#430913: evince: Evince fails to remember "Print Setup" settings

Thomas Dickey dickey at radix.net
Fri Jun 29 18:55:52 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:25:52AM -0700, Kevin Brown wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:20:07AM +0200, Kevin Brown wrote:
> >>Hmm...well, my locale is "POSIX".  In other words, I don't set one.  The 
> >>reason I don't set one is that terminal programs such as xterm aren't 
> >>aware of UTF-8 and don't properly render certain punctuation characters 
> >>when the locale is set to en_US.UTF-8.
> >
> >xterm's supported UTF-8 for several years (the "uxterm" script is an
> >example of how to set it up).
> >
> >regarding "certain punctuation characters", your comment gives no clues.
> 
> Oh, excellent, that's exactly what I needed.  That option wasn't widely 
> available on Linux when I first ran into this problem.

It's been there a while - see

	http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_137
> 
> The "certain punctuation characters" include, but are not limited to, 
> hyphens, quotes, and apostrophes.

the non-ASCII ones, of course...

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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