diff -dPNur xterm-172/button.c xterm-172-new/button.c
--- xterm-172/button.c	2002-10-05 13:57:11.000000000 -0400
+++ xterm-172-new/button.c	2003-07-12 11:25:39.000000000 -0400
@@ -1364,7 +1364,7 @@
     text_prop.nitems = *length;
 
 #if OPT_WIDE_CHARS
-    if (screen->wide_chars) {
+    if (screen->utf8_mode) {
 	if (*type == XA_UTF8_STRING(XtDisplay(w)) ||
 	    *type == XA_STRING ||
 	    *type == XA_COMPOUND_TEXT(XtDisplay(w))) {