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Re: utf-8 input under X11
From: |
Gerd Moellmann |
Subject: |
Re: utf-8 input under X11 |
Date: |
26 Oct 2001 16:59:25 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1.50 |
David Monniaux <David.Monniaux@ens.fr> writes:
> Le Vendredi 26 Octobre 2001 16:30, Gerd Moellmann a écrit :
> > Would that work? I mean when I start a session on my X server,
> > would it deliver input to the remote process on your system in
> > UTF-8?
>
> As I mentioned before, X servers do not deliver input in any
> character encoding, be it UTF-8 or any other. They deliver Keysyms.
> The X library linked to the client translates those keysyms into
> ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 or whatever. What is important with respect to
> locales is the machine the X client runs on, not the X server.
I should have been more precise: does XmbLookupString deliver
something in UTF-8?
> I tested this here with:
> - X server on a PC acting as X-terminal running a version of Linux
> without UTF-8 locales
> - client on a Linux PC with utf-8 locales; it works perfectly.
>
> If you want an account, please arrange for a secure channel for me to
> send you a password (PGP/GPG keys welcome).
I'd need ssh access because that's easier for me having a dynamic IP.
But let's see first if Kenichi has some idea, and if the patch I sent
last let's Emacs abort or not.
- Re: utf-8 input under X11, (continued)
- Re: utf-8 input under X11, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/26
- Re: utf-8 input under X11, Gerd Moellmann, 2001/10/26
- Re: utf-8 input under X11, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/26
- Re: utf-8 input under X11, David Monniaux, 2001/10/26
- Re: utf-8 input under X11, Gerd Moellmann, 2001/10/26
- Re: utf-8 input under X11, David Monniaux, 2001/10/26
- Re: utf-8 input under X11,
Gerd Moellmann <=
Re: utf-8 input under X11, Kenichi Handa, 2001/10/27
Re: utf-8 input under X11, Kenichi Handa, 2001/10/28
Re: utf-8 input under X11, Kenichi Handa, 2001/10/28