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Subject:    Re: [XFree86] Unicode (utf-8) persistent problem
From:       Federico Zenith <zenith () chemeng ! ntnu ! no>
Date:       2003-08-13 11:08:07
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Please ignore the message,
after 2 weeks I finally found a solution just after mailing you.

The problem was that the locale en_US.UTF-8 had been taken from the list 
of "localedef --list-archive", but the directory was still there, and I 
had no clue that there had been such a deletion. After a hopeless 
localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8, everything is working.

Sorry for bothering you :-)

-Federico

Federico Zenith ha scritto:

> Hi everybody,
> First time I write to the list so please don't crucify me if say 
> something utterly stupid.
>
> I used to utilise a custom keyboard layout that could type all 
> characters in ASCII, Latin-1, and Latin Extended A. I needed this 
> because I usually write in Italian, English, Norwegian and Esperanto - 
> and there is no Latin-n that allows typing all of them. The keyboard 
> layout with .Xmodmap files is at 
> http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/zenith/klavaro/linuxkla.html .
>
> To use utf-8, I had to set the environment variable 
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 . This worked for a few months, and I was quite 
> happy with that.
>
> My problem starts a couple of weeks ago. After my holidays I ran a 
> major update of the system (that did _not_ involve xfree itself 
> though), and afterwards the dead keys and the Compose key did not work 
> anymore. In KDE apps, it became impossible to type even å, ø, æ, ß, ð 
> and all other Latin-1 characters, while Latin Extended A characters 
> that were not obtained through dead keys were still typable. I noticed 
> that the behavioural change did not occur in the text console, however 
> it did in twm (the window manager that is used to test whether xfree 
> is correctly configured...). I came to the conclusion that this weird 
> behavior is somehow due to some problem in xfree. Now I have set 
> LC_CTYPE=it_IT@euro, a latin-9 set that works fine as a temporary 
> solution.
>
> The same problem occurred on two machines, at home and at work; I 
> asked later a friend of mine to reproduce it on his laptop, and the 
> same pattern was shown, so it's not a machine-specific issue.
> All systems were running under Linux Gentoo, with xfree 4.3.0
>
> Any clues?
>
> Thanks for your help
> -Federico Zenith
>
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