Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:16:23 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 8-bit characters anyone? Message-ID: <20050322221622.GB821@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0503222300390.17600@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> References: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0503222102290.1391@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <20050322215440.GA821@gothmog.gr> <Pine.LNX.4.62.0503222300390.17600@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE>
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On 2005-03-22 23:02, Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE> wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>>In KDE, after having added my own xmodmap to the .xinitrc file, I
>>>though that they might appear. No such luck. Even after setting the
>>>keyboard layout on Control Panel/Regional/Keyboard Layout to Swedish
>>>do they not appear. [...]
>>
>>You have probably forgotten to set the locale related stuff correctly in
>>your environment. What does the following in one of your shells?
>>
>> % env | grep LANG
>> % env | grep LC_
>
> Nothing at all. Though, I never did fiddle with locales before the
> upgrade either. In KDE I have configured the locale as Swedish, and the
> date, currency and those things look ok.
This is probably what's causing you trouble.
FWIW, using the XKB input extension here, I noticed that the X server
fails to get/output any 8-bit character until I correctly set my
environment in the login shell or my ``.xinitrc'' file.
For instance, for Greek text input, I use:
[-- .xinitrc file --]
% # Clear all existing locale environment.
% __junk=""
% unset __junk `env | sed -n -E '/^(LANG|LC_[A-Z]+)=.*$/ s/=.*$//p'`
% export LANG='C'
% export LC_CTYPE='el_GR.ISO8859-7'
% export LC_COLLATE='el_GR.ISO8859-7'
%
% # Finally, fire up the window manager.
% exec wmaker
[-- /etc/X11/xorg.conf --]
% Section "InputDevice"
% Identifier "Keyboard0"
% Driver "keyboard"
% Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
% Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
%
% # Support for Greek input. You must also have a matching locale
% # setup in the environment of your xinit process.
% Option "XkbLayout" "us,el"
% Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
% EndSection
The xorg.conf stuff fails to work if I comment out the locale settings
in my .xinitrc file.
- Giorgos
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