Re: Xfce, xfce4-terminal, and UTF-8 (now works)
- In reply to: George Mitchell : "Re: Xfce, xfce4-terminal, and UTF-8 (now works)"
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 07:51:21 UTC
On 12/07/21 02:50, 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 >> > > Some time in the last six months UTF-8 started working again in > xfce4-terminal (now at version 0.8.10_1, and xfce4-wm-4.16.1). > I'm sorry I can't be more precise. Thanks to whomever did the > good work! -- George > Great to hear this. I have noticed XFCE upstream did a lot of work regarding internationalization, so it's quite posssible the updates that happened in the while did fix this too. -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>