On Wed Apr 20, 2022 at 2:29 AM CDT, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 07:09:57PM -0500, Robert Winkler wrote:
> >
> >
> > On April 15, 2022 2:23:36 PM CDT, Quentin Rameau wrote:
> > >Hi Robert,
> > >
> > >> Hi, according to the st Status, UTF-8 should be working. Much needed for
> > >> multilingual typing with ú, ü, ß, µ, ¿ etc.
> > >> However, I only get 00e9 if I type é; anything, I need to specify in
> > >> config.h?
> > >
> > >No, you just should only need to declare correctly your LC_CTYPE
> > >
> >
> > Sorry, but I don't get it fixed. I rebuilt the locals with dpkg-reconfigure
> > locales, with the US UTF-8 as default.
> >
> > On lxterminal, the characters é, ö etc. work. In st they don't.
> >
> >
> >
>
> It works in st. It's a misconfiguration on your system.
>
> If you provide more information, not the bare minimum, maybe some people are
> kind enough to help you.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Hiltjo
Hi, thanks for all the hints I got from the [st] [dev]!
Anyway, I still cannot sort it out; hopefully the following information
helps that someone can spot the problem:
As I mentioned, the UTF-8 symbols work in other terminals such as
lxterminal.
1) The locales seem to be fine:
~~~
rob@pop-os ~> locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
rob@pop-os ~>
~~~
2) Fonts. The liberation font is installed (see `config.h` below).
~~~
rob@pop-os ~> apt search liberation
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
fonts-liberation/impish,impish,now 1:1.07.4-11 all [installed,automatic]
Fonts with the same metrics as Times, Arial and Courier
fonts-liberation2/impish,impish,now 2.1.3-1 all [installed,automatic]
Fonts with the same metrics as Times, Arial and Courier (v2)
~~~
btw. I tested Liberation Mono in `lxterminal`, and UTF-8 works.
3) `config.h`
~~~
/* See LICENSE file for copyright and license details. */
/*
* appearance
*
* font: see http://freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html
*/
static char *font = "Liberation Mono:pixelsize=18:antialias=true:autohint=true";
static int borderpx = 2;
/*
* What program is execed by st depends of these precedence rules:
* 1: program passed with -e
* 2: scroll and/or utmp
* 3: SHELL environment variable
* 4: value of shell in /etc/passwd
* 5: value of shell in config.h
*/
static char *shell = "/bin/sh";
char *utmp = NULL;
/* scroll program: to enable use a string like "scroll" */
char *scroll = NULL;
char *stty_args = "stty raw pass8 nl -echo -iexten -cstopb 38400";
/* identification sequence returned in DA and DECID */
char *vtiden = "\033[?6c";
/* Kerning / character bounding-box multipliers */
static float cwscale = 1.0;
static float chscale = 1.0;
/*
* word delimiter string
*
* More advanced example: L" `'\"()[]{}"
*/
wchar_t *worddelimiters = L" ";
/* selection timeouts (in milliseconds) */
static unsigned int doubleclicktimeout = 300;
static unsigned int tripleclicktimeout = 600;
/* alt screens */
int allowaltscreen = 1;
/* allow certain non-interactive (insecure) window operations such as:
setting the clipboard text */
int allowwindowops = 0;
/*
* draw latency range in ms - from new content/keypress/etc until drawing.
* within this range, st draws when content stops arriving (idle). mostly it's
* near minlatency, but it waits longer for slow updates to avoid partial draw.
* low minlatency will tear/flicker more, as it can "detect" idle too early.
*/
static double minlatency = 8;
static double maxlatency = 33;
/*
* blinking timeout (set to 0 to disable blinking) for the terminal blinking
* attribute.
*/
static unsigned int blinktimeout = 800;
/*
* thickness of underline and bar cursors
*/
static unsigned int cursorthickness = 2;
/*
* bell volume. It must be a value between -100 and 100. Use 0 for disabling
* it
*/
static int bellvolume = 0;
/* default TERM value */
char *termname = "st-256color";
/*
* spaces per tab
*
* When you are changing this value, don't forget to adapt the »it« value in
* the st.info and appropriately install the st.info in the environment where
* you use this st version.
*
* it#$tabspaces,
*
* Secondly make sure your kernel is not expanding tabs. When running `stty
* -a` »tab0« should appear. You can tell the terminal to not expand tabs by
* running following command:
*
* stty tabs
*/
unsigned int tabspaces = 8;
/* Terminal colors (16 first used in escape sequence) */
static const char *colorname[] = {
/* 8 normal colors */
"black",
"red3",
"green3",
"yellow3",
"blue2",
"magenta3",
"cyan3",
"gray90",
/* 8 bright colors */
"gray50",
