#!/bin/sh # $XTermId: uxterm,v 1.20 2005/08/05 01:25:40 tom Exp $ # $XFree86: xc/programs/xterm/uxterm,v 1.11 2005/08/05 01:25:40 dickey Exp $ # wrapper script to setup xterm with UTF-8 locale program=xterm # Check if there is a workable locale program. If there is not, we will read # something via the standard error. Ignore whatever is written to the # standard output. locale=`sh -c "LC_ALL=C LC_CTYPE=C LANG=C locale >/dev/null" 2>&1` found=no # Check for -version and -help options, to provide a simple return without # requiring the program to create a window: if test $# = 1 then case $1 in -v|-ver*|-h|-he*) $program "$@" exit $? ;; esac fi # Check environment variables that xterm does, in the same order: for name in LC_ALL LC_CTYPE LANG do eval 'value=$'$name if test -n "$value" ; then case $value in *.utf8|*.UTF8|*.utf-8|*.UTF-8) found=yes ;; *.utf8@*|*.UTF8@*|*.utf-8@*|*.UTF-8@*) found=yes ;; C|POSIX) # Yes, I know this is not the same - but why are you # here then? value=en_US ;; esac break fi done # If we didn't find one that used UTF-8, modify the safest one. Not everyone # has a UTF-8 locale installed (and there appears to be no trivial/portable way # to determine whether it is, from a shell script). We could check if the # user's shell does not reset unknown locale specifiers, but not all shells do. if test $found != yes ; then if test -n "$value" ; then value=`echo ${value} |sed -e 's/[.@].*//'`.UTF-8 else name="LC_CTYPE" value="en_US.UTF-8" fi eval save=\$${name} eval ${name}=${value} eval export ${name} if test -z "$locale" ; then # The 'locale' program tries to do a sanity check. check=`sh -c "locale >/dev/null" 2>&1` if test -n "$check" ; then eval ${name}=${save} eval export ${name} echo "uxterm tried to use locale $value by setting \$$name" >&2 xmessage -file - <