Timeline for How to make the login shell xterm use utf-8?
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| Mar 30, 2022 at 14:49 | comment | added | Polluks | locale charmap gives the answer. | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 14:46 | comment | added | user732 | When you type xterm in the shell on the RHEL server, a program (maybe /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm) runs on RHEL server. Via the magic of the DISPLAY environment variable, all X11 messages go back to the X11 server on your PC. I'm not sure how fonts play into this, whether the X11 server on your PC uses/needs them, or the xterm client on RHEL uses or needs them. | |
| Feb 22, 2014 at 18:30 | comment | added | Free Radical | I don't think any xterm process is ever running on the RHEL server. When I type in xterm in the shell on RHEL, all it does is to send a message to the X windows server on the PC, requesting that it creates another xterm process/window. The X-Win32 from StarNet Comm. Corp. turns my PC into a X terminal, and both xterm instances executes on the PC, using the X.11 protocol to communicate with the ssh instances on RHEL6. At least, that is the way I believe X11 works. | |
| Feb 22, 2014 at 17:30 | comment | added | user732 | If you can run xterm from the shell that runs inside the X-Win32 xterm, aren't you actually runnning an xterm process on the RHEL server, and displaying it on your laptop or desktop? That would be a totally different xterm executable, running on a different machine. | |
| Feb 22, 2014 at 15:51 | comment | added | Free Radical | Thanks for responding. It is not the font (good suggestion tho' - I've expanded the question to cover this angle). However, PuTTY does it right - so it seems to be the terminal emulator that causes it. Just weird that the same terminal emulator gets it right when I fork a second shell. I guess the solution is to ditch the commercial product and go with PuTTY. However, the StarNet Comm. Corp. xterm emulator has some other properties I need. | |
| Feb 22, 2014 at 15:24 | history | answered | user732 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |