xterm 2.4.3 fails to displays some of the UTF-8 characters

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The important thing with the Exceed emulator is the fonts are loaded from 
the Exceed Windows client directory and not on the Unix host.
My running OS is Solaris 10 over x86.
I got 'xterm 2.4.3' from the www.sunfreeware.com web site because the 
standard xterm delivered with Solaris was not displaying the UTF-8 fonts 
correctly.
So after successfully installing the 'en_GB.UTF-8' locale, I was able to 
display the extended characters (like Chinese and Arabic characters).

Here is my terminal env:

XTERM_LOCALE=en_GB.UTF-8
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
HZ=100
XTERM_VERSION=XTerm(243)
OPENWINHOME=/usr/openwin/bin
XTERM_SHELL=/bin/ksh
LC_CTYPE=
SHELL=/bin/ksh
HISTSIZE=2000
TERM=xterm
TZ=MET

I created this small UTF-8 XML test chart:

http://webpollux.free.fr/public/D174AE93570D5CBF0E99AA4609CD6287/short_UT
F-8_display_test.xml

First, I get this and as you can notice, some of the characters are 
"invisible" compared to what you get in your browser:

http://webpollux.free.fr/public/D174AE93570D5CBF0E99AA4609CD6287/dump1.jp
g

If I select and move the mouse over the "invisible" characters, I can 
make them appear or disappear as you can see below.
The characters seem to randomly appear/disappear when I change the 
selection.

http://webpollux.free.fr/public/D174AE93570D5CBF0E99AA4609CD6287/dump2.jp
g
http://webpollux.free.fr/public/D174AE93570D5CBF0E99AA4609CD6287/dump3.jp
g


I did not find out if it was an Exceed problem, an xterm configuration 
problem or a locale problem.

* Does anybody have an idea and can help me to find ?

Thanks in advance.
This problem makes me crazy !
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Reply forfun 7/13/2009 8:32:43 PM

forfun <for.fun@laposte.net> �crivait
news:XnF9C47E5574F90DFun@212.27.60.38: 

> The important thing with the Exceed emulator is the fonts are loaded
> from the Exceed Windows client directory and not on the Unix host.
> My running OS is Solaris 10 over x86.
> I got 'xterm 2.4.3' from the www.sunfreeware.com web site because the 
> standard xterm delivered with Solaris was not displaying the UTF-8
> fonts correctly.
> So after successfully installing the 'en_GB.UTF-8' locale, I was able
> to display the extended characters (like Chinese and Arabic
> characters). 

I forgot to tell that I am using the following font '-b&h-lucidatypewriter-
medium-r-normal-sans-15-0-100-100-m-0-iso10646-1' provided with the Exceed 
install.

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Reply forfun 7/13/2009 8:44:33 PM


forfun <for.fun@laposte.net> �crivait
news:XnF9C47E75901E30Fun@212.27.60.38: 

> I forgot to tell that I am using the following font
> '-b&h-lucidatypewriter- 
> medium-r-normal-sans-15-0-100-100-m-0-iso10646-1' provided with the
> Exceed install.

Another updated post because my web link were truncated by Google News:

I have a weird problem trying to display UTF-8 characters when using 
'xterm 2.4.3' through Exceed (Hummingbird Connectivity 10) emulator 
working under Windows XP.
The important thing with the Exceed emulator is the fonts are loaded from 
the Exceed Windows client directory and not on the Unix host.
My running OS is Solaris 10 over x86.
I got 'xterm 2.4.3' from the www.sunfreeware.com web site because the 
standard xterm delivered with Solaris was not displaying the UTF-8 fonts 
correctly.
So after successfully installing the 'en_GB.UTF-8' locale, I was able to 
display the extended characters (like Chinese and Arabic characters).

Here is my terminal env:

XTERM_LOCALE=en_GB.UTF-8
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
HZ=100
XTERM_VERSION=XTerm(243)
OPENWINHOME=/usr/openwin/bin
XTERM_SHELL=/bin/ksh
LC_CTYPE=
SHELL=/bin/ksh
HISTSIZE=2000
TERM=xterm
TZ=MET

... and I am using font '-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-15-0-
100-100-m-0-iso10646-1' provided with the Exceed install.

I created this small UTF-8 XML test chart:

http://webpollux.free.fr/public/28/UTF-8.xml

First, I get this and as you can notice, some of the characters are 
"invisible" compared to what you get in your browser:

http://webpollux.free.fr/public/28/dump1.jpg

If I select and move the mouse over the "invisible" characters, I can 
make them appear or disappear as you can see below.
The characters seem to randomly appear/disappear when I change the 
selection.

http://webpollux.free.fr/public/28/dump2.jpg
http://webpollux.free.fr/public/28/dump3.jpg


I did not find out if it was an Exceed problem, an xterm configuration 
problem or a locale problem.

* Does anybody have an idea and can help me to find ?

Thanks in advance.
This problem makes me crazy !
0
Reply forfun 7/13/2009 8:58:23 PM

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