[SOLVED] Uppercase accents

maninthemiddle · 2018-12-31 13:32:11

Hi there,

I am having an issue I can't solve after searching the web. I cannot write uppercase accents like Á when on a tty or urxvt. I can, nonetheless, when I am on Firefox. I can't even paste these letters to the terminal, copied from Firefox. An É gets converted to an E. Lowercase accents work alright.

$ localectl status
System Locale: LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
VC Keymap: es
X11 Layout: es

This is indeed what I want. Locale in danish but ES keyboard map. If you need more info, please say so. Hope you can help me!

Happy new year and thanks!

Last edited by maninthemiddle (2019-01-02 06:27:17)

seth · 2018-12-31 14:11:01

Ignore the tty for the moment, if you copy É into urxvt and from there back into eg. the browser - do you get what you want?
Alternatively store the letter in a textfile and "less" it in urxvt.

Also:

locale
locale -a

maninthemiddle · 2019-01-01 12:32:21

Thanks for the reply.

When I copy É back to the browser it is copied correctly (I get an É).
When I less the file, I get an E.

$ locale
LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="da_DK.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

$ locale -a
C
da_DK.utf8
POSIX

seth · 2019-01-01 13:46:49

It's most likely your font or a rendering issue (the ascent incl. the accent being to high for the glyph box) - what font do you use for urxvt?

maninthemiddle · 2019-01-01 13:56:07

My .Xdefaults has:

urxvt*.font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=15

The thing is that it isn't working at TTY either so I don't think it is an urxvt issue.

seth · 2019-01-01 14:09:53

Set aside the TTY, those fonts are all limited.
The terminal does not display the character, but preserves the codepoint.

Ensure it's loaded: "xrdb -query | grep -i font"
The accent is barely notable for me at this font, (it's merely one pixel on top of a pretty huge letter) => screenshot?
It's better for the hinted & dpi aware glyph:

urxvt*.font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:size=15:hinting=true

or with consolas at those parameters

URxvt*font: xft:Consolas:pixelsize=15

maninthemiddle · 2019-01-01 16:15:44

The xrdb -query command says that the font is loaded.

For me, both characters are the same. The first should be É and the second, E.

I tried both fonts and nothing changed.

seth · 2019-01-01 21:11:02

That's for sure not DejaVu Sans Mono, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fo … s_Mono.svg
Please post the actual output of "xrdb -query" and "ps aux | grep -i urxvt" to rule out fonts controlled by some parameter.

maninthemiddle · 2019-01-01 21:27:33

The problem was that ttf-dejavu was not installed. Thanks for the help!

2ManyDogs · 2019-01-01 21:51:30

Please remember to mark your thread [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).

seth · 2019-01-01 22:02:45

In case the console is still an issue, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … sole#Fonts and especially http://alexandre.deverteuil.net/pages/consolefonts/ - Lat2-Terminus16 might be your choice.

Arch Linux

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[SOLVED] Uppercase accents

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