On 10/08/2005, at 8:29 PM, Antonios Christofides wrote:
I want to be able to type both French and Greek (and English).
Antonios, I have posted about this before (twice), and got no
response so far. :(
I want to be able to use both English and Vietnamese, constantly. I
can use both with no problems in my Mac OSX GUI (Mac OSX is a BSD-
based Unix), but in X11...
When I start the application (xterm, uxterm, and openoffice all
exhibit the same behavior) with LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8, then Greek is
OK; but if I switch to us_intl keymap, I can't type accented letters;
they are just ignored.
I get empty boxes when I type a dead key, instead of the input not
moving, then the accent being placed on the next vowel. :(
Is this like what's happening to you?
If, instead, I start the application with LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8, then
us_intl dead keys work OK. Most Greek characters, including accented
ones (produced with the dead key) are OK; but the Greek quotes and
Greek semicolon, which are produced with the dead key, don't work.
I don't know if I have those options. How would I do this in X11?
Can't I just somehow say to the system to ignore what is before the
dot at LC_CTYPE and just accept the UTF-8 result that seems to be
coming from the keyboard driver anyway?
A friend of mine finally got an admission recently that 'there are
some problems with X11 and some languages", but that was all the
information being offered. :(
Antonios, there must be people inputting Greek successfully in X. Try
writing to:
Simos Xenitellis: simos74@xxxxxxx
He's the head of a Greek translation effort, and knows a great deal
about Greek input. Tell him I sent you. :) He's very helpful.
I could believe that maybe there were problems inputting Vietnamese
in X11 on Mac specifically, but there are plenty of people using it
on Linux/Unix non-Mac! This bears more investigation, but I really
don't know where to start.
Thanks a lot.
I'm running X 4.3 on a Debian Sarge.
If for some reason Simos isn't available, pop up on the debian-i18n
mailing list, where there is plenty of expertise on inputting
different languages in Debian. ;)
Καλή τύχη!
(I love your language: it's so beautiful to read and write.)
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
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