Description of problem: The default font of an xterm window can't render many of the characters that are frequently found in program like nroff, mutt, etc. This appears to be related to the change to LANG=en_US.UTF-8. However, reverting back to LANG=en_US still leads to unsatisfactory results (and differs from RedHat-7.3 behavior). In the end, I was able to resolve the issue by forcing iso10646-1 fonts. If this is the "true solution" then I suggest /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias be changed so that the common aliases (such as "fixed", "6x13", "10x20", etc.) use the iso10646-1 fonts. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open an xterm and a gnome-terminal side-by-side 2.run "man tcsh" (or whatever) in both windows Notice how hyphens and quotes are missing in the xterm window
This is not a bug in xterm. mutt, pine and other programs are simply clueless towards unicode. There are numerous open, and closed bugs filed against xterm, xchat, man, pine, mutt, and other programs, and also various manpages - all of which are NOTABUG also. Feel free to query bugzilla for UTF-8 and "unicode" for much more details. Also note, that if this was a legitimate bug in xterm (which it isn't), Red Hat does not at all support xterm. Any real bugs in xterm are to be reported by the bug reporter directly to XFree86.org, or to the official xterm maintainer (Thomas Dickey I believe). xterm is included in Red Hat Linux merely as convenience for users used to it, or who prefer it, but it is provided unsupported as-is. If it ever becomes unsupported upstream and buggy, it will be removed from the distribution completely. Closing bug NOTABUG.