[SOLVED] Gentoo UTF-8 problem

dracuss · 08-08-2009, 03:58 PM

There is a small problem I have with UTF-8 support in xterm: characters that do not belong to ASCII are simply leaved as blank characters.
Here is my /etc/locale-gen:

Code:

en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
ru_RU.KOI8-R KOI8-R
ru_RU.CP1251 CP1251
ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8
ro_RO.UTF-8 UTF-8
ru_RU ISO-8859-5
ro_RO ISO-8859-2

Here is the output of "locale -a" command:

Code:

C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
ro_RO
ro_RO.iso88592
ro_RO.utf8
romanian
ru_RU
ru_RU.cp1251
ru_RU.iso88595
ru_RU.koi8r
ru_RU.utf8
russian

Here is my /etc/env.d/02locale

Code:

LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"

My xterm font is : XTerm*font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-1.
Also all the programs are compiled with "unicode" and "nls" use-flags.

At the boot time I didn't notice any errors. Also google didn't give any hints on how should this problem be solved.

David the H. · 08-08-2009, 05:04 PM

localegen and the "locale -a" list just show the encodings available for use on your system. The only one that's important here is the one you're using at the moment, which the plain "locale" (no arguments) command will show you. But since your LC_CTYPE seems to be UTF-8 (assuming that that's what /etc/env.d/03locale configures), that's probably not your problem.

I'm going to guess that it's the xterm font. Since it says "iso8859-1" it may not be able to handle unicode characters. Have you tried changing it to something else yet?

dracuss · 08-08-2009, 05:58 PM

David the H., speaking about the font, I know that the Terminus fonts support UTF.
Also I tried these fonts, but the effect is the same:
-xos4-terminus-bold-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-microsoft-cp1251
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-koi8-r

dracuss · 08-09-2009, 12:40 AM

David the H., thank you very much. Indeed I should have used the ISO-10646-1 version of the font.