On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Martin [ISO8859-1] Norb�ck wrote:
> How is unicode input supposed to work in xterm?
>
> I tried to cut&paste text from the yudit editor into a UTF-8 enabled
> xterm but neither UTF-8 nor UNICODE encoding seemed to work.
>
> How does it interact with the X clipboard?
What it does it documented
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html>
In short -
1. it properly translates keysyms to unicode (including supporting the
"Unicode keysyms" convention).
2. It uses a type UTF8_STRING instead of STRING or COMPOUND_TEXT to
transfer UTF-8 text thru the selection
yudit is just putting UTF-8 strings into STRING which is wrong.
> Also, does anyone know an application which presents a sort of unicode
> palette, which i can choose from all unicode characters in different
> ways (keyboard input, combining characters, picking from lists) and then
> cut&paste into an xterm, or even better, have them automatically
> transfered to the active xterm.
I am not aware of any such thing as such. What I typically do is to use
one of the .repertoire-utf8 files from the ucs-fonts.
Sorting all the codepoints into an order which makes it easy to locate a
particular one is nontrivial.
--
Robert
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