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Re: Setting keyboard layout on xterm



On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 07:03:57AM +0000, Riza Dindir wrote:
> Hello Martin,
> 
> If I change the LC_CTYPE environment variable, I would need to restart
> the xterm for the change to take effect?

yes - xterm only checks that at startup.

It would be helpful if your followup shows the output from the locale program.

(will continue, this evening)
 
> 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

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