Re: FVWM: Using UTF-8 locale

From: Marcus Lundblad <ml_at_update.uu.se>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 07:36:16 +0200 (CEST)

> It sounds like your shell's profile is overriding the LANG setting (e.g.
> /etc/profile)... I personally set the locale in my zshrc, depending on
> whether I'm in an xterm or the console (because Linux's console UTF-8
> support is kind of lacking.)

Yes, you're right. My .bashrc read some global definition (/etc/profile).
So I fixed that.

>
> GTK 1.2 apps can be configured to load a Unicode font if you really want
> to, but I *do not* recommend this, because the entire font will be
> loaded at once. If you don't use an external font server like xfs, your
> entire X server will become unusable for a moment while the font is
> loaded.

I do use XFS. And I also have a script that generates xresources and
.gtkrc and so on.
And the font I set in .gtkrc
"-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
is the same I use in FVWM (there is an iso10646 version of this).
And it works, as mentioned, in FVWM. I don't really mind using a bitmap
font.
>
> That said, FVWM 2.5 (using Xft), GTK 2 (again using Xft), and
> xterm/mlterm all support UTF-8 beautifully.
>
> The Xresources I use for xterm (which enable UTF-8 amongst other things)
> are available at http://themuffin.net/xres/xterm.xresources

Thanks!

//Marcus

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Received on Tue Sep 02 2003 - 00:39:26 BST

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