Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 01:27:45 +0100 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xfce, xfce4-terminal, and UTF-8 Message-ID: <e9c11a39-e495-126e-1e92-d32bfe18881c@madpilot.net> In-Reply-To: <4b3205ed-b370-a3a4-925d-751c26c8d733@madpilot.net> References: <6f720b0f-3c0e-f11b-15b5-c99e177f658c@m5p.com> <61620ff0-c216-dbfe-9717-6387c9f67778@m5p.com> <4b3205ed-b370-a3a4-925d-751c26c8d733@madpilot.net>
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On 01/01/21 01:22, Guido Falsi via freebsd-ports wrote: > On 31/12/20 23:57, 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 >>> >> >> I guess I should have been a little more specific about the exact >> failure. I press the Compose key and two more keys, provoking no >> response at all from xfce4-terminal, but any following keys act >> normally. I'm pretty sure it all worked under FBSD 11.3, and it >> started to fail some time after I upgraded to 11.4 (don't quote me >> on that) and hasn't worked since I upgraded to 12.1. (By the way, >> the same failure afflicts plain xterm.) -- George >> >> > > I'm not an expert on composition but I'm working on the update to XFCE > 4.16. I recently noticed some problems with XFCE 4.14 and composition > (being Italian I use it a lot mainly for accented letters, which are > quite common and essential in my mother tongue). > > Unluckily the update is now held back due to issues with some packages > not updating correctly sometimes. > > But maybe the update would solve it for you. The update is being worked > on at [1] and [2]. > > BTW if you're using xfce you can configure your compose key via the > keyboard configuration in xfce4-settings. > > Also more strictly on composition, have you checked the combinations you > are using are actually present in the list of known key combinations > (can't recall what file that is in, sorry) Found it, it's in /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose, and here does contain the copyright symbols, as <compose> o c (and others), it is working for me also in xfce4-terminal, but I'm using XFCE 4.16 with the patches linked in the previous message. -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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