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Re: xfonts-base-transcoded went missing in etch



On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 11:34:54PM +0200, Josip Rodin 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?

Oh, OTOH, maybe it's the *shell* that doesn't let me input those keys
without the locale set. I don't see why it would do that, but still.

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