Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] charset for all UTF-8 characters

On 4/22/25 12:51, Marco Moock wrote:
> Hello!

Hi!


> I am using cde-current on FreeBSD. I selected en_US.UTF-8 in the
> dtlogin, but I see that non-latin characters (e.g. Cyrillic) are not
> displayed properly in dterm (and maybe others). German umlauts work
> when en_US.UTF-8 is being selected instead of C.

dtterm definitely has some issues with UTF-8.  Would be great if it 
could be fixed properly.


> Is that a problem of the language/charset setting or is that simply not
> supported?

In dtterm's case, I think it's a problem with dtterm itself.  I found 
that many UTF8 symbols worked fine in dtpad for example.


> Is it possible to provide additional charsets for login and $LANG, like
> de_DE.UTF-8?

You can enable other languages during the build - see ./configure --help 
output.  You can enable the German locale with --enable-german on the 
configure command line.  Of course you should have the de_DE.UTF8 locale 
installed before building.  By default, only the English locale 
(en_US.UTF-8) locale is built, with link to the C locale.

Ideally we would get XFT with truetype fonts working, but that's likely 
a big job, and no one wants to do it :)


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Jon Trulson

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