8-bit characters anyone?

[Andreas Davour]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On 2005-03-22 23:02, Andreas Davour <ante at Update.UU.SE> wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>>> In KDE, after having added my own xmodmap to the .xinitrc file, I
>>>> though that they might appear. No such luck. Even after setting the
>>>> keyboard layout on Control Panel/Regional/Keyboard Layout to Swedish
>>>> do they not appear. [...]
>>>
>>> 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:
>
>    [-- .xinitrc file --]

After adapting this to my locale, things look like they should in X. Now 
I'll just have to figure out how to get the console to work as I want as 
well.

Things must have changed from my last install, when this wasn't 
necessary.

Thanks for your help!

/Andreas

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