Re: Setting keyboard layout on xterm

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

Hello Thomas,

I have these lines in the .Xresources file.

XTerm*faceName: Mono
XTerm*faceSize: 10
XTerm*vt100.locale: true
!XTerm*vt100.font: *-*-*-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-9

The output from locale (after running xterm -u8)

LANG=""
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=""

And the locale output when running xterm "as is" is

LANG=""
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=""

Riza

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 8:17 AM Thomas Dickey <dickey%his.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> 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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