From nobody Mon Jul 12 07:51:21 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47EA1276A20 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2021 07:51:30 +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 4GNbYt49xxz3vj3 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2021 07:51:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from mail (mail [192.168.254.3]) by mail.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4GNbYl5DSyz6qfl; Mon, 12 Jul 2021 09:51:23 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=madpilot.net; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-language:content-type :content-type:in-reply-to:date:date:message-id:from:from :references:subject:subject:received; s=bjowvop61wgh; t= 1626076281; x=1627890682; bh=HbBEOHKvUUN3IdkQvz5OB1hqgnTCCjL34xs EhJDb4uM=; b=vKk6Z1drbrbWRsx+MQpv7Q/ECbvyk51BlOlPdq7dec6Jsrz5QXp o8sjovj+Io2vAYghp3/Ci0hfCCV6muTNMKG9InYCeBPx6/4UYz9k1bBW2mYV9bLt IR6uUxHpfgA+MjZ9fwCYgjB7GvFOUABysTqMDBFEQ6RWCIBdhKZSpAgmmg3wK0qw aQJ6dQa9Dt6+QNQyq6pKFnlbWaTGnAyUMBZmohoiEkMV+11su1f4dPZr0QDoqQWo waZ/w6KfFmoPUoMj72/wI6I1zNATGvYPQ/kuvHSx2tmzgD4iQ0tE/o6s+wcyf7yU SWuBdDmoQvs2r2R6WLC8j/nbjVBI+6yf4yQ== 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 blLB6X3Qpb6L; Mon, 12 Jul 2021 09:51:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Xfce, xfce4-terminal, and UTF-8 (now works) To: George Mitchell , freebsd ports References: <6f720b0f-3c0e-f11b-15b5-c99e177f658c@m5p.com> Message-ID: <2690d9eb-bece-bd4c-9ac5-e2df68887482@madpilot.net> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 09:51:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4GNbYt49xxz3vj3 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[freebsd]; REPLY(-4.00)[] Reply-To: mad@madpilot.net From: Guido Falsi via freebsd-ports X-Original-From: Guido Falsi X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-ports List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org On 12/07/21 02:50, 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 >> > > Some time in the last six months UTF-8 started working again in > xfce4-terminal (now at version 0.8.10_1, and xfce4-wm-4.16.1). > I'm sorry I can't be more precise.  Thanks to whomever did the > good work!                                            -- George > Great to hear this. I have noticed XFCE upstream did a lot of work regarding internationalization, so it's quite posssible the updates that happened in the while did fix this too. -- Guido Falsi