Re: No accented chars in 3.1.4 (solution)
On my system which uses Daniel's 4.3.0-0ds2 package, non ASCII characters show
up as hollow boxes.
On Thursday 16 October 2003 04:12 am, Chris Cheney wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:32:25AM +0200, Ricardo Galli wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 October 2003 00:47, Chris Cheney shaped the electrons to
> >
> > shout:
> > > > BTW, this only happens, at least in my computers, where I use xfree
> > > > 4.3, but not with 4.2. Chris (Cheney), can you give us some clue?
> > >
> > > I am using XFree 4.3 as well and have never had problems with accented
> > > chars. However, I am using kxkb with US keyboard + deadkeys, so I do
> > > not know if that may have an effect.
> >
> > I have three computers with last KDEs (and kdebase from CVS) + xfree 4.3
> > with the same problem. Plus one with 4.2 wihtout any problem. Locales and
> > fontoconfig are the same for the four machines.
> >
> > In two of my laptops (Dell X200), if I try to write , for example, "á" in
> > konsole, i get "aaaa".
>
> Which exact version of XFree86 4.3 are you running. I seem to just been
> bitten by it and I have XFree86 4.3.0-0pre1v3. I am going to see if
> going back to 4.3.0-0pre1v1 will fix the problem. I am now seeing both
> the deadkeys will not work issue and the accented chars show up as '?'
> glyphs. I didn't upgrade to 4.3.0-0pre1v3 as soon as other people
> since I don't have experimental listed in my sources.list so this may be
> the cause of the problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Cheney
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