Xfce, xfce4-terminal, and UTF-8

[Guido Falsi]

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 at madpilot.net>