uxterm   [plain text]

#!/bin/sh
# $XFree86: xc/programs/xterm/uxterm,v 1.7 2003/12/18 21:12:16 dickey Exp $
# wrapper script to setup xterm with UTF-8 locale

program=xterm
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
		*.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
		eval ${name}=`echo ${value} |sed -e 's/[.@].*//'`.UTF-8
		eval export ${name}
	else
		LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
		export LC_CTYPE
	fi
fi

# for testing:
#test -f ./xterm && program=./xterm

exec $program -class UXTerm -title 'uxterm' -u8 "$@"