xterm(229-1) does not accept "-u8"

[Poor Yorick]

>  From: Yongwei Wu <wuyongwei@gmail.com>
>  Subject: Re: xterm(229-1) does not accept "-u8"
>  Sent: 2007-08-27 14:01

>  is enough to do much, like viewing multi-byte documents in Vim.  I use
>  this script to start a UTF-8 XTerm:
>  
>  #!/bin/sh
>  LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 xterm -u8 -fn "*-medium-*--18-*-iso10646-1" -fb
>  "*-bold-*--18-*-iso10646-1" -fw "*-medium-*-ja-18-*-iso10646-1" -e
>  bash $@ &
>  

Double quotes around the "$@" variable will ensure that positional variables are passed into the second shell undisturbed:

#!/bin/sh
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 xterm -u8 -fn "*-medium-*--18-*-iso10646-1" -fb
"*-bold-*--18-*-iso10646-1" -fw "*-medium-*-ja-18-*-iso10646-1" -e
bash "$@" &

-- 
Poor Yorick


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