8-bit characters anyone?

[Andreas Davour]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>>> You have probably forgotten to set the locale related stuff correctly in
>>> your environment.  What does the following in one of your shells?
>>>
>>> 	% env | grep LANG
>>> 	% env | grep LC_
>>
>> Nothing at all. Though, I never did fiddle with locales before the
>> upgrade either. In KDE I have configured the locale as Swedish, and the
>> date, currency and those things look ok.
>
> This is probably what's causing you trouble.
>
> FWIW, using the XKB input extension here, I noticed that the X server
> fails to get/output any 8-bit character until I correctly set my
> environment in the login shell or my ``.xinitrc'' file.
>
> For instance, for Greek text input, I use:
[snip]

Thanks! I'll try to set some locale settings in my .xinitrc and see if 
that solves anything. I don't use xorg, since I have been using XFree86 
since the early 1990-ies and don't want to learn it all over again. 
Maybe that's what troubling my setup.

Now I'll just wait for another long compile, and then shut down X and 
try this out.

/Andreas

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