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initbox

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Registered: 2008-09-27

Posts: 172

urxvt and äöå

Hey!

I have this really hard-to-solve problem, so I decided to ask for help..

My keymap works just fine in other programs except for urxvt. Even in urxvt, all the other buttons except for ä å and ö work fine. Copy-pasting them doesn't work either, all I get is ?'s. alsamixer and ncmpc -> ncurses layouts also display incorrectly.

I've tried exporting different LC_ALL:s, rc.conf's... Nothing seems to work.. (Yes, I did remember to use locale-gen etc.)

At the moment I simply have my rc.conf set as en_US.utf8, same for LC_ALL. I just use XKbLayout "fi" in my xorg.conf and everything else seems to work properly.

I do get these error messages in my shell:

urxvt: default locale unavailable, check LC_* and LANG variables. Continuing.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
........bla bla about the language settings
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

This is probably just a matter of finding the right locale settings but I've tried and haven't succeeded so..

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: urxvt and äöå

I have these three uncommented in locale.gen and those characters work fine in urxvt:

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8  
en_US ISO-8859-1  
en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15

I hope this helps.

initbox

Member

Registered: 2008-09-27

Posts: 172

Re: urxvt and äöå

Ohh I missed the dot at first..

Let's see now..

Yeah, seems to work. Thanks! I didn't even have such a locale in my locale.gen at first though, so that's why I couldn't figure it out.

Last edited by initbox (2008-11-07 21:56:50)