On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 06:39:28PM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote: > Hello, > > I don't think it has to do with the recent upgrade to 4.4.0-2 for > 10.2-gcc3 but more with the fact that I use X11 mostly for things > like xpdf, display etc. but I realized that I can't input eight > bit chars like e.g. German umlauts via <Opt-U> char like in > Terminal App. > > I use the American keyboard layout but even if I switch to German > layout I can put in umlauts in xterm but not e.g in gvim. You probably should set at least LC_CTYPE to de_DE or whatever is appropriate for german locale. If you can input the characters at least in one application your keyboard layout is probably correct, you just have to tell the other applications that umlauts are also printable characters. > > With American layout I have access to all kind of eigth bit chars > via Cmd-char but in a completely chaotic way. > > Is this normal? Is my X11 installation broken? Is there any fix? > Anything I have to put in .Xresources, .Xdefaults? > > I tried to set > > $ export XLC_LOCALE='iso88591-1' > > and some other similar stuff to no avail. > > Ideas anyone? >
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