On 14/08/2005, at 6:38 AM, Antonios Christofides wrote:
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. :(
Antonios, thankyou very much for your other very detailed post. I
found it very interesting. I don't know how much of it I can apply to
my own problem, but it's very good to know these things for themselves.
This must be a locale problem.
1) What operating system do you use?
Mac OSX 10.4.2, all updates current.
2) Open a terminal emulator, like xterm, and enter the command
"locale". What is the result?
Pearl:~ clytie$ locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL="C"
Pearl:~ clytie$
There seems to be a concensus on "C" here. ;) What is C?
The Mac machines are still MacRoman base; all the Unicode stuff is
overlayed on that. Even in the main GUI, applications can use Unicode
or not. I don't know what that says about the locale of the main GUI,
or an overall locale. I can choose a Unicode keyboard layout in the
main GUI, and providing the application supports Unicode, everything
works fine.
Not in X11, so far.
3) Give me a specific example of what is not working. A specific
letter, with a specific accent. Choose a simple one with one
accent, because I'm not familiar with Vietnamese.
OK, I won't use any of the combined diacritics, because even the
simple ones aren't working.
In xterm, I try typing e-grave, which should look like:
è
if your mailer supports Unicode (è if you only have Latin-1, for
reference).
Note: the X11 preferences under Input have an option to "Use the
system keyboard layout", and I have checked that. That means it
should use whatever keyboard layout I normally use in the main GUI.
It _is_ using my Vietnamese layout, or I would be seeing normal
Latin-1 text.
Then, I try an e grave in xterm in X11:
e
I get space, e. On my layout, I type 5-e to get e-grave, so if it
were not using my layout, that's what we would see:
5e
but we see
e
I hope that is helpful. :S
Finally, your emails have given me some hope of resolving this!
Σας ευχαριστώ.
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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