Re: Setting keyboard layout on xterm

[Riza Dindir <riza.dindir%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello Martin,

If I change the LC_CTYPE environment variable, I would need to restart
the xterm for the change to take effect?

Riza

On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 3:56 PM Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 06:21:46PM +0000, Riza Dindir wrote:
> > I also changed the font for XTerm in the Xresources file, which uses
> > iso8859-9, but that does not do anything. Although the font changes,
> > the characters for that language can not be entered on xterm.
> >
> > Is there a way to do that?
>
> You need to set the environment variable LC_CTYPE to e.g. de_DE.ISO8859-15
> or de_DE.UTF-8 for german (the former giving you ISO 8859-15, the latter
> UTF8 unicode encoding), or tr_TR.ISO8859-9 or tr_TR.UTF-8 for turkish.
>
> You can see all available locales in /usr/share/locale/.
>
> I don't know if the in-tree xterm supports unicode (I mostly use rxvt
> or urxvt from pkgsrc instead), but nowadays most people would prefer
> the UTF8 encoding. If you do not have legacy file names around, it doesn't
> matter which you pick.
>
> Martin