On two different gentoo systems i've found that urxvt seems to completely ignore the
On two different gentoo systems i've found that urxvt seems to completely ignore the £ symbol (Shift+3) on uk keyboards. It can display the £ perfectly fine (for example if i cat a file containing the £ symbol) and it has no problem with any other symbol. But when i press the key combination Shift+3 absolutly nothing hapens. All other X terminals work fine and detect £ input as they should, including uxterm. I'm not sure if this is a gentoo specific bug or a urxvt bug but i dont seem to be able to find anything relating to it when i search on google.
Have you got problems with others UTF-8 symbols as well?
I have no problems with any other symbols on my keyboard, and i have no reliable method of testing other UTF-8 symbols. As i have said, rxvt-unicode is capable of displaying the symbol fine, the only problem is when attempting to input the symbol. I am now fairly certain this is a Gentoo specific bug as i have tested rxvt-unicode on another distro (ArchLinux) and it does not have the same problem. It's also interesting to note that although i can enter '
I have no problems with any other symbols on my keyboard, and i have no reliable method of testing other UTF-8 symbols. As i have said, rxvt-unicode is capable of displaying the symbol fine, the only problem is when attempting to input the symbol. I am now fairly certain this is a Gentoo specific bug as i have tested rxvt-unicode on another distro (ArchLinux) and it does not have the same problem. It's also interesting to note that although i can enter '£' at the console it incorrectly displays the '£' symbol as a 'ú', however this problem is only present while directly accessing vt1-5 and i'm not sure if it is a related bug.
(In reply to comment #1) > Have you got problems with others UTF-8 symbols as well? > I got the same problem as himselfe@gmail.com. My swedish characters are also ignored,
(In reply to comment #1) > Have you got problems with others UTF-8 symbols as well? > I got the same problem as himselfe@gmail.com. My swedish characters are also ignored,åäö(and the £). I talked to the guys in #rxvt-unicode on FreeNode, one spirited fellow gave me som e hints on locale and other settings that might be the cause of this, nothing that came to positve results thou. He also suggested I should fiddle with my CFLAGS, so I tried everything down to nothing. No results.
Seems like you don't have the locales prober set. I can reproduce this bevahiour only if I set C or POSIX as locale. Can you try something like this: LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 urxvt (in a terminal) Please make sure, this locale exist (locale | grep en_US.utf8). Else take another locale (which supports utf-8) from the list: locale | grep utf8 Should work with this locales as well. Can you type then in the new terminal your special chars like
Seems like you don't have the locales prober set. I can reproduce this bevahiour only if I set C or POSIX as locale. Can you try something like this: LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 urxvt (in a terminal) Please make sure, this locale exist (locale | grep en_US.utf8). Else take another locale (which supports utf-8) from the list: locale | grep utf8 Should work with this locales as well. Can you type then in the new terminal your special chars like ö, ä, ü, £ and so on? Can you also give me the output of the locale command?
> another locale (which supports utf-8) from the list: locale | grep utf8 locale -a | grep utf8 even. Sorry for the typo.
(In reply to comment #5) > > another locale (which supports utf-8) from the list: locale | grep utf8 > > locale -a | grep utf8 even. Sorry for the typo. > You were correct, setting LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 fixed the problem. Could you recommend where the best place is to set this env variable? as I don't remember coming across it when I was reading through the docs (though that was a long time ago) and it would be a bit of a pain to have to prefix that setting every time i want to run urxvt. Also is it recomended for me to re-compile urxvt with that var set or does that have no effect? Thanks for your help.
Please read http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml for a howto.
