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FS#8842 - aterm gives illegible symbols when written in spanish, this doesn't happen in xterm or urxvt

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by limpio (limpio) - Wednesday, 05 December 2007, 15:25 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Monday, 25 February 2008, 05:32 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Monday, 25 February 2008, 05:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Wednesday, 05 December 2007, 18:53 GMT
Can you give me a list of the Spanish letters that cause this problem so I can do tests?
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Monday, 25 February 2008, 05:31 GMT
This problem is caused because aterm doesn't have utf-8 support. Further release of aterm won't have utf-8 support.
From the afterstep wiki (http://wiki.afterstep.org/index.php?title=AfterStep_Won%27t_List) :

"Unicode aterm: OK, this isn't AfterStep specifically, but you're crazy if you run AS without aterm. We have received many requests for adding Unicode support to aterm. Aterm is light, fast, and fun. Adding Unicode support will take away most, if not all of these properties. In addition, adding Unicode support would involve a complete re-write of the aterm code. There are excellent Unicode terminals available: rxvt-unicode, mlterm, uterm are some examples."

Solution : use another terminal that support utf-8.

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