Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:00:14 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> To: freebsd@edvax.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SOLVED [WAS: Re: LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 with xterm - still French accented characters are corrupted Message-ID: <201307172200.r6HM0EAF025190@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130717225734.4afc1a35.freebsd@edvax.de>
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>Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:57:34 +0200 >From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> >To: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> >Subject: Re: LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 with xterm - still French accented > characters are corrupted >On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:38:53 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >> * Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> [2013-07-17 13:14 +0100]: >> >> > I tried, in tcsh: >> > >> > % setenv |grep FR >> > XTERM_LOCALE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 >> > LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 >> > >> > but the accented French characters are corrupted, e.g. in >> > /usr/ports/french/aster/pkg-descr. >> > >> > I built xterm with >> > >> > % make -C /usr/ports/x11/xterm showconfig >> > ===> The following configuration options are available for xterm-296: >> > 256COLOR=on: Enable 256-color support >> > DABBREV=off: Enable support for dabbrev-expand >> > DECTERM=off: Enable DECterm Locator support >> > GNOME=off: GNOME desktop environment support >> > LUIT=on: Use LUIT for locale convertion from/to UTF-8 >> > PCRE=on: Use Perl Compatible Regular Expressions >> > SIXEL=on: Enable Sixel graphics support >> > WCHAR=on: Enable wide-character support >> > ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings >> > >> > I usually can read russian with either >> > ru_RU.KOI8-R or en_US.UTF-8 in xterm, so I think >> > the xterm is set up correctly to view 8-bit characters. >> >> Doesn't fr_FR.UTF8 work? > >That probably won't matter. The characters in that file are >normal 1-byte characters (ISO), not 2-byte ones (UTF-8). >I have built xterm with no special options and can see >them properly. *skip* >I assume you have all neccessary _fonts_ installed? oh.. fonts! I realised I have russian fonts in .Xdefaults. I removed those and now can see accented characters fine. Thanks Anton
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