On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:24:34 +0200, Martin Carpenter wrote:

> > Do you have LC_CTYPE set to locale that has those chars
> > (8859-1, or 8859-15 for Euro)?  Xterm is picky about that
> > (e.g. xterm will refuse to input cyrillic if xterm's
> > locale is not one that supports cyrillic).
> 
> I didn't, but even when I do, I don't get anything sensible
> back. "sterling" seems to produce a carriage return (actually \xa3
> in vi), and nothing from EuroSign.

$ grep -i 0xa3 8859-1.txt
0xA3    0x00A3  #       POUND SIGN

:)


> With the following in my .Xresources:
> 
>   XTerm.Background:    black
>   XTerm.background:    black
>   XTerm.Foreground:    white
>   XTerm.foreground:    white

Use XTerm*background and XTerm*foreground


> cpp(1) crashes ("internal error"). Eek.

Hmm... 


SY, Uwe
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