From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Jan 1 00:27:50 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F7A4D6F7B for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2021 00:27:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from mail.madpilot.net (vogon.madpilot.net [159.69.1.99]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D6QpY4pQLz4dsL for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2021 00:27:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from mail (mail [192.168.254.3]) by mail.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D6QpX1hhZz6dSS; Fri, 1 Jan 2021 01:27:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.madpilot.net ([192.168.254.3]) by mail (mail.madpilot.net [192.168.254.3]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id uIWIDXwaFVYh; Fri, 1 Jan 2021 01:27:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Xfce, xfce4-terminal, and UTF-8 To: George Mitchell , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <6f720b0f-3c0e-f11b-15b5-c99e177f658c@m5p.com> <61620ff0-c216-dbfe-9717-6387c9f67778@m5p.com> <4b3205ed-b370-a3a4-925d-751c26c8d733@madpilot.net> From: Guido Falsi Message-ID: Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 01:27:45 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4b3205ed-b370-a3a4-925d-751c26c8d733@madpilot.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4D6QpY4pQLz4dsL X-Spamd-Bar: ++ X-Spamd-Result: default: False [2.00 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[159.69.1.99:from]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[madpilot.net:s=bjowvop61wgh]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx:c]; MISSING_MIME_VERSION(2.00)[]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[freebsd]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(1.00)[1.000]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(1.00)[1.000]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[159.69.1.99:from:127.0.2.255]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[madpilot.net:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[madpilot.net,quarantine]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:24940, ipnet:159.69.0.0/16, country:DE]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-ports] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:27:50 -0000 On 01/01/21 01:22, Guido Falsi via freebsd-ports wrote: > On 31/12/20 23:57, George Mitchell wrote: >> On 12/31/20 3:11 PM, George Mitchell wrote: >>> I set LOCALE to en_US.UTF-8 and LC_CTYPE to C.  Upon login, I run >>> setxkbmap -option compose:lwin.  Consequently, I can enter all the >>> UTF-8 characters I need, such as é, ç, and even ™, into most X-based >>> programs I run.  When I first set this up, over a year ago, it also >>> worked for xfce4-terminal, but that stopped working earlier this >>> year.  (At this point, I can't tell you when exactly, because I >>> just worked around the problem with mousepad as necessary.)  Does >>> anyone know the correct fix for this? >>> >>> Happy New Year, and let's all have a great FreeBSD-based 2021! >>> -- George >>> >> >> I guess I should have been a little more specific about the exact >> failure.  I press the Compose key and two more keys, provoking no >> response at all from xfce4-terminal, but any following keys act >> normally.  I'm pretty sure it all worked under FBSD 11.3, and it >> started to fail some time after I upgraded to 11.4 (don't quote me >> on that) and hasn't worked since I upgraded to 12.1.  (By the way, >> the same failure afflicts plain xterm.)                -- George >> >> > > I'm not an expert on composition but I'm working on the update to XFCE > 4.16. I recently noticed some problems with XFCE 4.14 and composition > (being Italian I use it a lot mainly for accented letters, which are > quite common and essential in my mother tongue). > > Unluckily the update is now held back due to issues with some packages > not updating correctly sometimes. > > But maybe the update would solve it for you. The update is being worked > on at [1] and [2]. > > BTW if you're using xfce you can configure your compose key via the > keyboard configuration in xfce4-settings. > > Also more strictly on composition, have you checked the combinations you > are using are actually present in the list of known key combinations > (can't recall what file that is in, sorry) Found it, it's in /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose, and here does contain the copyright symbols, as o c (and others), it is working for me also in xfce4-terminal, but I'm using XFCE 4.16 with the patches linked in the previous message. -- Guido Falsi