Re: Setting xterm to use utf8 by default in X11?
Re: Setting xterm to use utf8 by default in X11?
- Subject: Re: Setting xterm to use utf8 by default in X11?
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:43:25 -0700
Try setting LANG in ~/.profile as well. That's where I set it, and it
works here:
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
Also, it looks like you're not running the latest release. Please
install 2.1.4. It looks like you didn't reinstall 2.1.4 after you
installed the 10.5.2 or security update. That might be part of the
issue.
--Jeremy
On Mar 28, 2008, at 13:33, Adam D. I. Kramer wrote:
Hi Harold,
This works great for setting the LANG environment variable to be
en_US.UTF-8 by default, but it is not actually causing the xterms to
be run
in UTF-8 mode.
So now LANG is indeed UTF-8:
feta:adik> setenv | grep LANG
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
...but the xterm is not in UTF-8 mode:
feta:adik> locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="C"
(and more).
If I create a new xterm from the original xterm, the NEW one is
launched in
UTF-8 mode (based on $LANG)...but that was all possible by putting
"setenv
LANG" into my .cshrc. What I'm *really* hoping for is for command-N
and the
default xterm to be launched in UTF-8 mode.
As an additional note, if the LANG variable is NOT set, then even
running
xterm -u8 or +u8 does not launch an xterm in UTF-8 mode.
I'm using "X11.app 2.1.4 - (xorg-server 1.3.0-apple5)"...thanks very
very
much for your help!
--Adam
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
+ "Adam D. I. Kramer" <email@hidden>:
setenv LANG en_US.UTF-8
...allows the CURRENT xterm to start a NEW xterm in utf8 mode, but
putting
that command in my .cshrc doesn't seem sufficient to cause ALL new
xterms to
be started in UTF8 mode. There is no /etc/locale.gen which would
handle this
as on linux boxes, soooo...anyone know the answer?
Short answer: .MacOSX/environment.plist
See also: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html
There is a System Preference pane called RCEnvironment that lets you
edit this file if you prefer. Google should find it for you.
- Harald
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