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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:12:02 +0100
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Subject: Re: snapshot 20091002 and xterm crash
From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
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2009/10/2 Corinna Vinschen:
>
> [Ping Yaakov]
>
>
> On Oct =C2=A02 09:04, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> xterm abort when run in snapshot 20091002
>> reverting to 20090924 solve the issue.
>>
>> Run as:
>> DISPLAY=3D127.0.0.1:0.0 xterm =C2=A0-ls /usr/bin/bash.exe
>
> I can reproduce that. =C2=A0I found the problem and it's really puzzeling.
>
> In the snapshot 2009-10-02, the default charset for the "C" locale is
> set to UTF-8 for the application. =C2=A0In 2009-09-24, it was only using
> UTF-8 for filenames and other system objects by default.
>
> When starting xterm with no locale environment variable set, it fails
> to start. =C2=A0If you're quick enough, you can read a message along the
> lines of "Cannot allocate pty: No such file ..."

That could be a luit problem:

http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com/msg19129.html


> However, starting xterm works if you set, for instance, the environment
> variable $LANG to "C.UTF-8". =C2=A0This works:
>
> =C2=A0DISPLAY=3D127.0.0.1:0.0 LANG=3DC.UTF-8 xterm
>
> However, even though newlib handles "UTF8" same as "UTF-8", it's
> apparently not the same for xterm.

Random guess: xterm recognises "UTF-8" in $LANG and concludes that no
translation is needed. It doesn't recognise "UTF8" (without the
hyphen), nor does it know that plain "C" now implies "UTF-8", hence it
invokes "luit" to do the translation, which fails for the reason
above.

No idea why the luit problem didn't show up more prominently before though =
...

Andy

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