On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 03:06:35PM +0200, Alexander Foremny wrote: > I managed to solve the problem by creating more locales in configuration.nix. > > > $ cat /etc/nixos/configuration.nix | grep supportedLocales > > supportedLocales = [ "de_DE/ISO-8859-1" "de_DE@euro/ISO-8859-15" > > "de_DE.UTF-8/UTF-8" "en_US/ISO-8859-1" "en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8" ]; > > I am suspecting that having the de_DE/ISO-8859-1 locale along with a > ISO-8859-1 font encoding in XTerm solves this issue. However, I > switched to a 8859-15 and probably the de_DE@euro/ISO-8859-15 helps > here. But I am only guessing.
You shouldn't need ISO-8859-1 anywhere. I've UTF-8 all around, and I use that very often (Well, I don't use utf-8 in the vcs; I don't know even if it works there). Maybe you wrote the supportedLocales somehow wrong? Can you check locales work fine for you? "ls --help" is properly localized? Regards, Lluís. > 2012/7/11 Alexander Foremny <[email protected]>: > > Hello, > > > > I changed my .Xdefaults to include the following two lines: > > > >> XTerm*font: > >> -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1 > >> XTerm*utf8: true > > > > The font looks quite nice! (Thanks for that.) But unfortunately > > umlauts are still not working, problems are still the same as in my > > original e-mail. > > > > Regards, > > Alexander Foremny > > > > 2012/7/11 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email protected]>: > >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:56:49AM +0200, Alexander Foremny wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> I am struggling with a few minor issues in NixOS and finally want to > >>> ask how to solve them. My problem is that German umlauts are not fully > >>> working. > >>> > >>> I can type umlauts in X11 applications and they get displayed > >>> correctly. I cannot type umlauts in X11 terminal applications and they > >>> don't get displayed correctly. The same applies to the console. > >>> > >>> I am using xterm as terminal application and zsh as user shell. Here > >>> is some output I consider relevant to this issue. > >> > >> You have to tell xterm you want an utf8 terminal. > >> > >> I have in ~/.Xdefaults: > >> XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1 > >> XTerm*utf8: true > >> > >> (the defaults are loaded on the X session start; use xrdb to load them at > >> will) > >> > >> There are command line parameters for xterm for those, too. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Lluís. > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
