On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 11:26:49PM +0000, RVP wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2023, Valery Ushakov wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 15:09:44 +0100, r0ller wrote: > > > > > Well, checking what printf results in, I get: > > > > > > $printf 'n?z'|hexdump -C > > > 00000000 6e e9 7a |n.z| > > > 00000003 > > > $printf $'n\uE9z'|hexdump -C > > > 00000000 6e c3 a9 7a |n..z| > > > 00000004 > > > > > > It's definitely different from what you got for 'n?z'. What does > > > that mean? > > > > In the second example you specify \uE9 which is the unicode code point > > for e with acute. It is then uncondionally converted by printf to > > UTF-8 (which is two bytes: 0xc3 0xa9) on output. > > > > Your terminal input is in 8859-1 it seems. > > > > That's it. The terminal emulator is not generating UTF-8 from the keyboard > input. > > > May be you need to specify -u8 option or utf8 resource? > > > > That would work. So would running uxterm instead of xterm, but, all of > these mess-up command-line editing: Alt+key is converted into a char. > code instead of an ESC+key sequence. perhaps you're referring to eightBitInput (see manpage) > R0ller, do this: > > 1. Add your locale settings in ~/.xinitrc (or ~/.xsession if using xdm): > > export LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8 > export LC_CTYPE=hu_HU.UTF-8 > export LC_MESSAGES=hu_HU.UTF-8 R0ller wasn't clear about whether this was done (outside the terminal). Actually, R0ller didn't mention whether the terminal was the graphical environment or the console (from the comments, I assumed the latter). > 2. In ~/.Xresources, tell xterm to use the current locale when generating > chars.: > > XTerm*locale: true that's redundant, since the default "medium" will give the same effect :-) > The `-lc' option does the same thing. If using uxterm, the class-name > becomes `UXTerm'. > > > > > On Fri, 20 Jan 2023, Robert Elz wrote: > > > I believe bash will take your current locale into account > > when doing that [...] > > > > That's correct. But as r0ller had a UTF-8 locale set, I didn't mention that. > However, it is better to be precise, so thank you! > > -RVP -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey%invisible-island.net@localhost> https://invisible-island.net
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