Re: xsrc/60398 (Line drawing in xterm does not work as expected)

The following reply was made to PR xsrc/60398; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: [email protected] (Michael van Elst)
To: [email protected]
Cc: 
Subject: Re: xsrc/60398 (Line drawing in xterm does not work as expected)
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2026 15:10:28 -0000 (UTC)

 [email protected] (Havard Eidnes) writes:
 
 >If I do the same on netbsd-11, I do not.  Evidently with that
 >version, xterm *must* be started in an environment / locale setting
 >which includes UTF-8 for that to work, and in that case the font
 >menu entries related to UTF-8 are greyed out in the newly started
 >xterm.
 
 
 If you start xterm with a UTF-8 locale, then UTF-8 encoding is enabled
 and the menu entry is greyed out, so you cannot disable it at run-time.
 
 If you start xterm with a non-UTF-8 locale, then UTF-8 encoding is
 disabled and you can enable it at run-time.
 
 That's true here for netbsd-10, netbsd-11 and -current.
 
 No idea how you can disable UTF-8 encoding and grey out the menu entry
 at the same time.
 
 What you can do is to enable UTF-8 encoding and grey out the menu entry
 (i.e. turn on UTF-8 by some means) and wrap your command or shell
 in luit. xterm will do that automatically e.g. with the -lc option.
 
 Then your UTF8 line drawing characters will fail als luit tries to
 translate them according to your 8bit locale.