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zenolijo

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Registered: 2013-03-19

Posts: 36

[SOLVED] Swedish characters ÅÄÖ not working in urxvt

So i reinstalled arch a few days ago because my root HDD crashed.

Did a fresh install and got everything working except for that the ÅÄÖ keys which do not work in urxvt.
They work fine in the getty/VT and all other X applications, but not in urxvt. I use zsh, but it doesn't work in bash neither.
It worked fine on my old install, and as far as i know the only thing i configured was /etc/locale.gen, locale-gen,  /etc/vconsole.conf as well as setxkbmap, but there's apparently something that i'm missing.

Output of "locale"

LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=

Output of "locale -a"

C
POSIX
en_US.utf8
sv_SE.utf8

Last edited by zenolijo (2015-11-08 23:26:26)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Swedish characters ÅÄÖ not working in urxvt

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

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olive

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Registered: 2008-06-22

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Re: [SOLVED] Swedish characters ÅÄÖ not working in urxvt

For international character, the LC_CTYPE locale must be set to an UTF8 locale (or some other locales that supports the characters, but this is deprecated, use UTF8). For example export LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.utf8.

Last edited by olive (2015-11-08 20:33:44)

zenolijo

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Registered: 2013-03-19

Posts: 36

Re: [SOLVED] Swedish characters ÅÄÖ not working in urxvt

For international character, the LC_CTYPE locale must be set to an UTF8 locale (or some other locales that supports the characters, but this is deprecated, use UTF8). For example export LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.utf8.

Thanks alot, first tried with just exporting it to see if it worked and it did. Added it to /etc/locale.conf and rebooted and now works as expected.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

LC_CTYPE was only mentioned there but was never described what it actually does, should probably be added.

I found multiple forum posts with similar issues about this in both english and swedish, so that could possibly clear it up for more than just me.