On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Florian Hinzmann wrote: > When typing german umlauts my system behaves > inconsistent: > > In most X programs they appear fine (i.e. Netscape, several > mail clients, XEmacs, ..) > > When typing in xterm|gnome-terminal windows they > don't appear. Some chars do beep, but none of the > umlauts appear.
AFAIK this is due to the application that receives the characters. Xterms pass all characters unmodified; some programs (ae, ee, pico, lynx) basically don't check for "valid" characters, but other programs (bash) do check and reject "weird things that you're not supposed to enter". Other full-screen programs may use these chars for other purposes, mostly keyboard shortcuts. But they do this by looking directly at the keyboard; cut'n'paste from a "non- checking" editor usually works fine. So the real problem seems to be in the individual applications that were written by people with little knowledge of foreign languages ;-) (BTW, it seems an underdocumented X feature that you can use things like Win-K on Any Keyboard[tm] to get an ë (eh, pine beeps while pico doesn't...)) Regards, Anne Bezemer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
