Re: UTF-8 out-of-the box experience

[Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx>]

Markus Kuhn writes:
> UTF-8 locale support under X11 (XFree86 4.0.3) also seems still *very*
> broken. For example, I would have hoped that
> 
>   perl -e 'use utf8; print "\x{20ac}"' | xmessage -file -
> 
> (all under LANG=en_GB.UTF-8) shows me a window with the euro sign, but
> what I get instead is display of "â\202¬". :-(

The Xaw widget set, which xmessage uses, hasn't got a lot of
attention. You still need to set "xedit*international: true" to get xedit
working correctly in UTF-8 locales.

> I also tried vi quickly (VIM 6.0z ALPHA) with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, but when
> I used "vi UTF-8-demo.txt", I just got garbled text on the screen. ...
>  Couldn't figure out
> whether the vim 6.0z that comes with RH 7.1 has any UTF-8 support.

Maybe they didn't configure it with the option --with-features=big ?

Pablo Saratxaga writes:
> the most annoying thing is the broken fontset support at XFree86
> level

What is broken there? The 4.0.99.2 snapshot works fine for me in a
de_DE.UTF-8 locale.

> There is also another bug, in 'ls'.
> Try a 'touch somefile' with a utf8 name, then doing an ls; you will see
> only '?'.

This is fixed in fileutils-4.1.

Bruno
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