Stefan Sperling <[email protected]> wrote: > Log message:
> Install the en_US.UTF-8 ctype locale support file, and allow the UTF-8 > ctype locale to be enabled via setlocale(3) (export LC_CTYPE='en_US.UTF-8'). > > A lot of programs, especially from ports, will now start using UTF-8 if the > UTF-8 locale is enabled. Use at your own risk, and please report any breakage. > Note that ncurses-based programs cannot display UTF-8 right now, this is being > worked on. Some stuff that works: == xterm == If you start xterm with LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 set, it will come up in UTF-8 mode. Apart from displaying UTF-8 encoded text, it will also allow you to enter such text. Keysyms are translated, e.g. if you use a German, Swedish, etc. keymap with <adiaeresis>, that key will produce the byte sequence 0xC4 0xA4 in xterm. If you have a compose key (<Multi_key> in X11 terms), you can enter _a lot_ of characters with compose sequences. For instance, you can use $ setxkbmap -option compose:ralt to configure the right Alt key as compose. Compose sequences work by pressing (and releasing) the compose key and then two or three other keys that get combined into a single character, e.g.: <'><e> e with acute (French etc.) <c><r> r with caron (Czech) </><l> l with stroke (Polish) Some combinations are fairly intuitive, some are not. The complete list of supported sequences is here: /usr/X11R6/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose If you have been using a compose key for ISO 8859-X input all along, note that the UTF-8 sequences can be different, and in particular the order is important, e.g. it is always <'><e> now and <e><'> is not accepted. == GTK2 == The default GTK2 input method provides its own compose key processing, which already worked without UTF-8 locale. However, GTK2's compose sequences diverge from the X11 ones, and if you find that as confusing as I do, you can disable GTK2's own compose handling and use the X11 one by setting GTK_IM_MODULE=xim in the environment. That didn't work before, but now does. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
