Re: xfonts-base-transcoded went missing in etch
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 11:22:17PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > In reality, it's a strange situation whereby the rxvt started from within
> > a window manager (wmaker, xfce) started from within a desktop manager (gdm)
> > doesn't accept inputted letters which have special characters (those I need
> > Latin 2 for). But, if I start another rxvt from within that rxvt, that
> > next instance *does* accept those characters and shows them using the right
> > font.
> >
> > Is that bug known, has anyone filed anything like that?
> >
> Maybe a locale problem? If I run 'LC_CTYPE=C rxvt' it doesn't seem to
> accept non-ascii characters, whereas it does with 'LC_CTYPE=fr_FR rxvt'.
> If your window manager doesn't run in the right locale, but the shell's
> startup scripts setup the locale, that could explain what you're seeing?
But what does the shell locale have to do with it? I have the equivalent of
'setxkbmap hr' in all cases, because xorg.conf is set up so. If I didn't,
the second instance of rxvt couldn't know the Croatian keyboard layout,
either. Sounds like a bug in rxvt?
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