How can I switch off unicode in an xterm?

Boltar · External Since: Jul 12, 2007 Posts: 4

Hi

I'm running Suse 10.1 and the xterms support unicode. I don't want
unicode since I want to be able to see 8 bit ascii characters and not
have the terminal try and munge it into some unicode character along
with its neighbour. Does anyone know how to switch unicode support off
completely?

Thanks for any help

B2003

Thomas Dickey · External Since: Aug 09, 2006 Posts: 96

Boltar <boltar2003 DeleteThis @yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi

> I'm running Suse 10.1 and the xterms support unicode. I don't want

For "xterm", it's documented in the manpage.

You may not be running xterm - most SuSE users are using KDE,
which puts konsole in the menus (and the limited documented
provided there doesn't go that deep Wink

.

Either I'd simply start it with a non-UTF-8 locale (from the
command-line of course).

> unicode since I want to be able to see 8 bit ascii characters and not
> have the terminal try and munge it into some unicode character along
> with its neighbour. Does anyone know how to switch unicode support off
> completely?

> Thanks for any help

> B2003

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Boltar · External Since: Jul 12, 2007 Posts: 4

On 13 Jul, 01:14, Thomas Dickey <dic....DeleteThis@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:
> Either I'd simply start it with a non-UTF-8 locale (from the
> command-line of course).

Such as?

B2003

Boltar · External Since: Jul 12, 2007 Posts: 4

On 13 Jul, 14:14, Thomas Dickey <dic... DeleteThis @saltmine.radix.net> wrote:
> (plus, it's not clear if OP is using xterm or some other program)

Its standard xterm.

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Thomas Dickey · External Since: Aug 09, 2006 Posts: 96

Boltar <boltar2003 DeleteThis @yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 13 Jul, 01:14, Thomas Dickey <dic... DeleteThis @saltmine.radix.net> wrote:
>> Either I'd simply start it with a non-UTF-8 locale (from the
>> command-line of course).

> Such as?

I can only guess what your proper locale is.

"locale -a" lists some possibilities.

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Cedric Roux · External Since: Jul 13, 2007 Posts: 1

Boltar wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm running Suse 10.1 and the xterms support unicode. I don't want
> unicode since I want to be able to see 8 bit ascii characters and not
> have the terminal try and munge it into some unicode character along
> with its neighbour. Does anyone know how to switch unicode support off
> completely?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> B2003
>

What about launching xterm with the following?:
xterm +u8

Cedric.

Thomas Dickey · External Since: Aug 09, 2006 Posts: 96

Cedric Roux <croux RemoveThis @cadence.com> wrote:
> Boltar wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm running Suse 10.1 and the xterms support unicode. I don't want
>> unicode since I want to be able to see 8 bit ascii characters and not
>> have the terminal try and munge it into some unicode character along
>> with its neighbour. Does anyone know how to switch unicode support off
>> completely?
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>> B2003
>>

> What about launching xterm with the following?:
> xterm +u8

That would stop xterm from doing the translation, but applications within
the dependent shell would still see locale information - and do interesting
things.

(plus, it's not clear if OP is using xterm or some other program)

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Thomas Dickey · External Since: Aug 09, 2006 Posts: 96

Boltar <boltar2003.DeleteThis@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 13 Jul, 14:14, Thomas Dickey <dic....DeleteThis@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:
>> (plus, it's not clear if OP is using xterm or some other program)

> Its standard xterm.

In that case - as noted, "+u8" turns the UTF-8 mode off.

But if the system's locale is an UTF-8 one, e.g., en_GB.UTF-8,
then you would still have to override that to avoid confusing your
shell and other applications.

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