Re: Compose key and xterm vs. UTF-8

2010-03-15 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de wrote: Short: -- Why do compose key sequences fail to work in a UTF-8 xterm? And the short answer is: They work--if you know the right sequences. The compose key handling presumably comes out of some X11 library; xterm is just the recipient. The

Re: Compose key and xterm vs. UTF-8

2010-03-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:16:45AM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Short: -- Why do compose key sequences fail to work in a UTF-8 xterm? The port x11/rxvt-unicode is lighter on resources then xterm, and works fine with utf-8. (with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 set) Roland --

Re: Compose key and xterm vs. UTF-8

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:45:24PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:16:45AM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Short: -- Why do compose key sequences fail to work in a UTF-8 xterm? The port x11/rxvt-unicode is lighter on resources then xterm, and works fine with

Re: Compose key and xterm vs. UTF-8

2010-03-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Roland Smith: Why do compose key sequences fail to work in a UTF-8 xterm? The port x11/rxvt-unicode is lighter on resources then xterm, and works fine with utf-8. (with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 set) You didn't bother to read and understand my question, did you? urxvt shows

Re: Compose key and xterm vs. UTF-8

2010-03-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 01:43:27PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Roland Smith: Why do compose key sequences fail to work in a UTF-8 xterm? The port x11/rxvt-unicode is lighter on resources then xterm, and works fine with utf-8. (with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 set)

Re: Compose key and xterm vs. UTF-8

2010-03-14 Thread Parv
Nothing of susbtance here ... in message 20100314114524.gb25...@slackbox.erewhon.net, wrote Roland Smith thusly... On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:16:45AM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Short: -- Why do compose key sequences fail to work in a UTF-8 xterm? The port x11/rxvt-unicode

Compose key and xterm vs. UTF-8

2010-03-13 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Short: -- Why do compose key sequences fail to work in a UTF-8 xterm? Long: - I have configured a compose key (aka Multi_key) here: $ setxkbmap -layout us -option compose:ralt When I start an xterm with an ISO8859-1 locale $ LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 xterm I can use the compose key to