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Maximalminimalist

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Registered: 2009-09-20

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[Solved] no non-ASCII character input in rxvt-unicode

Hello everyone,

For some days now, I can't write any non-ASCII characters any more in rxvt-unicode and rxvt-unicode-patched. Unfortunately, downgrading the rxvt-unicode package doesn't seem to help. To have at least a temporary solution, I'd like to know at least which packages I could try to downgrade as well. Any ideas, anyone?

greez,

maxmin

Last edited by Maximalminimalist (2011-03-12 13:12:26)

Mr.Elendig

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Re: [Solved] no non-ASCII character input in rxvt-unicode

What exactly happens? Do you get squares or ?'s? Or can't you type the char at all? If the later, then it's most likely your keyboard layout and not urxvt that is the problem.  Btw, you should change the title, rxvt is not the same as urxvt/rxvt-unicode. Rxvt does not support unicode at all.

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karol

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Re: [Solved] no non-ASCII character input in rxvt-unicode

What are your locale settings? Can you paste non-ASCII characters to rxvt-unicode? Are they showing OK?

Maximalminimalist

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Re: [Solved] no non-ASCII character input in rxvt-unicode

When I try to type a non-ASCII-character I get nothing at all. This happens with my custom keyboard layout (modified programmer dvorak) and in some layouts I already tried (us: altgr-intl, ch, de and fr)

When I paste a non-ASCII characters in rxvt-unicode I get

maxmin ~ $ ?

This happens only on my x86_64 desktop which is more up to date than my i686 laptop. (I'm afraid now to do any updates.)

EDIT: I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean with locale settings. What do you mean with that?

EDIT2: Maybe just typing locale in the terminal is what you mean:

maxmin ~ $ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=

With other terminal emulators I get sometimes also nothing and sometimes right displayed but wrong interpreted character in vim. I didn't take notes while doing that but I'll try again if needed.

Last edited by Maximalminimalist (2011-03-06 21:51:23)

Mr.Elendig

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Re: [Solved] no non-ASCII character input in rxvt-unicode

Give the output of locale -a too please. Either you don't have the right locale built, or you are trying to set a invalid locale.

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Maximalminimalist

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Re: [Solved] no non-ASCII character input in rxvt-unicode

maxmin ~ $ locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX

There seems to be something wrong...

EDIT: I'm using my custom keyboard layout for some months now and didn't have trouble for anything until now. I have it in the '/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols' and don't use '.xmodmap'.

When I do pacman -Syu I also get things like

/sbin/ldconfig: libraries libvdpau.so.1 and libvdpau.so.1.0.0 in directory /usr/lib have same soname but different type.

Which I got because I changed my nvidia-driver from the nouveau to the proprietary one.

Last edited by Maximalminimalist (2011-03-11 10:05:20)

karol

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Re: [Solved] no non-ASCII character input in rxvt-unicode

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

Maximalminimalist

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Re: [Solved] no non-ASCII character input in rxvt-unicode

Thank you for reminding me the wiki. I was digging trough google results matching the error output. (Without success)

Typing

sudo locale-gen

did it for me. I didnt' need anything else.

Thanks to everyone! => Solved