[xterm 0002968]: Encoding options (-u8, -lc) documented but not supported

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The following issue has been CLOSED 
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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=2968 
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Reported By:                skayser
Assigned To:                skayser
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Project:                    xterm
Issue ID:                   2968
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     closed
Resolution:                 open
Fixed in Version:           
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Date Submitted:             2008-12-10 15:27 CET
Last Modified:              2014-02-14 15:57 CET
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Summary:                    Encoding options (-u8, -lc) documented but not
supported
Description: 
The man page documents various encoding related options that are _not_
supported by the provided xterm binary. Could you please enable these
options (i guess --enable-i18n and/or --enable-wide-chars should do the
trick)?

$ man -M /opt/csw/share/man xterm

     ...

     -lc     Turn on support of various  encodings  according  to
             the  users'  locale setting, i.e., LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE,
             or LANG environment variables.  This is achieved  by
             turning  on  UTF-8  mode  and  by  invoking luit for

     ...

     -u8     This option sets the utf8 resource.   When  utf8  is
             set,  xterm interprets incoming data as UTF-8.  This
             sets the wideChars resource as  a  side-effect,  but
             the  UTF-8  mode set by this option prevents it from

     ...

$ /opt/csw/bin/xterm -u8
/opt/csw/bin/xterm:  bad command line option "-u8"

$ /opt/csw/bin/xterm -lc
/opt/csw/bin/xterm:  bad command line option "-lc"
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 (0005952) skayser (administrator) - 2009-04-10 11:12
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=2968#c5952 
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Updated version (243) including UTF-8 support has been pushed to current.

xterm-243,REV=2009.04.09-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
xterm-243,REV=2009.04.09-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz 

Support for other locales via luit is not yet available. luit is part of
XFree86, but Sun only ships it starting with nv_85. Will have to see
whether to --enable-mini-luit in xterm or compile a stand-alone luit
version.