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Seron
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Location: Malmö, Sweden
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 Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:16 am Post subject: UTF-8 not working in xorg [SOLVED] |
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I've set up UTF-8 after reading the guide Using UTF-8 with Gentoo. In the console it works perfectly. But in xorg it doesn't work at all. In xterm (or uxterm) typing the character ö requires two keypresses and then öö comes out all at once. Filenames with umlauts are wrong and file contents with umlauts are wrong. It is independent of the wm I use (I've tried fluxbox and the default twm).
If I run xterm from an xterm window it starts but produces the following (see my locale settings below): | Code: | | Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C |
In /etc/X11/xorg.conf I have | Code: | Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbLayout" "se"
EndSection
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I've also tried usingOption "XkbLayout" "se_SE" andOption "XkbLayout" "se_SE.UTF-8" which have the effect that I can't type any umlaut characters in any application.
I have these locale settings | Code: | sterna ~ $ locale
LANG=sv_SE.UTF8
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.UTF8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.UTF8"
LC_PAPER="sv_SE.UTF8"
LC_NAME="sv_SE.UTF8"
LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE.UTF8"
LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE.UTF8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE.UTF8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE.UTF8"
LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF8 |
Any suggestions what to do?
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derfian
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Joined: 30 Sep 2004
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Location: Linköping, Sweden
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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What does locale -a say? That should give you a list of availible locales to use.
| Code: | $ locale -a
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sv_SE.utf8
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It looks like you should try putting utf8 in lowercase. Here's how it looks on my machine.
| Code: | $ locale
LANG=sv_SE.utf8
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_PAPER="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_NAME="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_ALL=sv_SE.utf8 |
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Seron
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Location: Malmö, Sweden
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you very much derfian!
I changed it to lowercase in /etc/env.d/02locale and then ran env-update. At first it looked like xorg refused to cooperate. I got a black screen with the X cursor in the middle and nothing more. But then I noticed twm produced errors about fonts. So I reemerged xorg with USE-flag cjk and after that the wm would start. I didn't think cjk would be necessary as Chinese, Japanese, Korean are not any of the languages I use, but the USE flage index does talk about multi-byte characters.
Just for testing I did switch back to uppercase after reemerging xorg and the problem returned, so it does have to be lowercase.
Thanks again! 
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