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psycepa

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[SOLVED] Xorg Hotplug, Openbox, CLI and native characters and fonts

-- according to a suggestion from: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 82#p683282 am posting this as  a separate thread--

Does anyone happen to encounter the following problem.
Before the update: no local (polish) characters in the GUI apps when I type (openbox) but the characters in CLI apps run under openbox display fonts correctly while typing
After the update, situation is reversed (i have tried to configure the hal policy but apparently I am missing something)
GUI apps under openbox display polish fonts correctly when I type and CLI apps (tilda, gvim, etc) dispplay '?' instead of local charcters when I type
Displaying previously created files which include polish characters display squares insted of the aforementioned glyphs.
I have tried numerous hints found on the web:
- modification of the 10-keymap.fdi file
- regenerate locale
- set xset fp+ /usr/share..
...but I'm running out of ideas.

So if any of you knows how to get rid of that crappy behaviour please share your priceless knowledge smile

BTW. under KDE everything seems to work fine...

Last edited by psycepa (2010-05-04 22:01:28)

psycepa

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Registered: 2009-02-22

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Hotplug, Openbox, CLI and native characters and fonts

I am getting a feeling that whatever I wouldn't ask, I will not get any help here

Ultraman

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Registered: 2009-12-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Hotplug, Openbox, CLI and native characters and fonts

Perhaps people just don't know?

What Locale(s) are you using?
What fonts? None of them work?

I'm simply using UTF8, and I have no problems with special characters in Openbox and GUI apps.
But I'm not Polish...

tomk

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Hotplug, Openbox, CLI and native characters and fonts

Maybe you could ask here?

psycepa

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Hotplug, Openbox, CLI and native characters and fonts

locale -a
C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
pl_PL
pl_PL.iso88592
pl_PL.utf8
polish

I am using Terminus for most of my CLI apps.

The Konsole app is somehow and exception if I set Terminus Font and UTF-8 or ISO-8859-2 encoding, but the fonts are ugly, like here:

other apps do not work no matter what I set.

The point is it was working well before xorg hotplugging was enabled. Afterwards...you can see yourelf...

@tomk: I'll try, but this should have nothing to do with specific nation whatsoever

edit:
I don't know if that does matter but its arch64...

Last edited by psycepa (2010-01-07 13:28:29)

psycepa

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Hotplug, Openbox, CLI and native characters and fonts

bump!

psycepa

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Hotplug, Openbox, CLI and native characters and fonts

bump!

Profjim

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Registered: 2008-03-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Hotplug, Openbox, CLI and native characters and fonts

Don't do the bumping, it'll piss people off. I'm sorry no one has offered you any useful suggestions yet.

psycepa

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Registered: 2009-02-22

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Hotplug, Openbox, CLI and native characters and fonts

so what should i do? post another thread with the same topic?

psycepa

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Hotplug, Openbox, CLI and native characters and fonts

even though you don't like it...

bump!

psycepa

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Hotplug, Openbox, CLI and native characters and fonts

bump...

psycepa

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Registered: 2009-02-22

Posts: 45

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Hotplug, Openbox, CLI and native characters and fonts

For some strange reason when i had changed rc.conf so that:

LOCALE=pl_PL.UTF-8
KEYMAP="-u pl2"
CONSOLEFONT="ter-216n"
CONSOLEMAP="8859-2"
LC_ALL=pl_PL.UTF-8

(please note lack of double quotes around pl_PL...)
and relogged everything started working...

Marking as solved