On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 03:31:44AM +0200, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Thomas PARIS escreveu em Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:21:54 +0200: > > > On Mon Jul 8 at 08:27 (+0200), Radovan Garabik wrote: > >> > A tiny experiment: > >> > --cut-- > >> > ~$ uterm & > >> > ~$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > >> > >> you need to do the export BEFORE you run uxterm > > > > Actually with all the installations I've tried, if I go to UTF-8 locale > > *before* starting uxterm, dead keys do not work whereas if I do it > > *after* the uxterm is started, they do work.
yesterday I was setting uxterm for one friend who had similar problems, and noticed following: he had generated sk_SK locale in ISO-8859-2 encoding he had en_US.UTF-8 locale he had export LC_CTYPE=sk_SK in his .zshrc when he ran uxterm, dead keys were not working dead keys were otherwise working for sk_SK locale entries in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/compose.dir were correct after some experimenting with strace(1), I realized that: - uxterm tries to set up an utf-8 locale - it looks for /usr/lib/locale/sk_SK.UTF-8, sk_SK.utf8 directories - the directories are not there, so uxterm switches to POSIX locale - the shell in uxterm sets up sk_SK locale for applications - after setting LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 in an uxterm, dead keys still do not work since uxterm works in POSIX locale in his case, it helped just to generate sk_SK.UTF-8 locale -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabík http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
