Xfce, xfce4-terminal, and UTF-8

George Mitchell george+freebsd at m5p.com
Fri Jan 1 00:30:53 UTC 2021


On 12/31/20 7:27 PM, Guido Falsi via freebsd-ports wrote:
> [...]
>> 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.
> 

Thanks for the pointer!  I will try this in the next couple of days
and report back when I can.                             -- George

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