Re: UTF-8 support

[James Youngman]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 05:09:55PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> > The fact that "uxterm" is not called "xterm" makes it ignore the .Xdefaults
> > settings for "xterm".
> 
> Well, I'm using Gnome, and it ignores .Xdefaults entirely.  You're
> supposed to use .Xresources.  I don't know why they renamed it.  But
> uxterm seems to pick up my .Xresources settings.

I believe this is because the .Xdefaults file is read by the X Toolkit
function XtGetApplicationResources(), which most Gnome applications do
not use (they normally don't link against libXt).

$ objdump -T  /usr/bin/X11/xterm | grep GetApplicationResources
00000000      DF *UND*  00000055              XtGetApplicationResources

The Xresources file on the other hand is probably read by "xrdb
-load", which is probably invoked by the session manager at some point
during login.

> In Debian 3.1 r0a, uxterm is a shell script wrapper around xterm; it
> ends up invoking "xterm -class UXTerm -title uxterm -u8".  It also
> futzes with your locale if necessary.

OK, maybe I'm wrong - xterm does use Xt, so if uxterm is a wrapper
around xterm and uxterm still doesn't read .Xdefaults, perhaps I'm
mistaken.

Regards,
James.