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Dear all Currently I’m using RedHat7.1 (Xfree86-4.0.3;
glibc-2.2.2) and happy enough with few Unicode supports for my lang (vietnamese) in Xwindow enviroment (LANG=vi_VN.UTF-8
startx). I mean, the system can display correctly menu,
desktop items, warning messages... – all with Unicode (ISO10646) fonts. (I made myself translations for some small utilities,
ex: gnumeric, gedit, ..(*.po; .directory files) – and
of cource using the UTF-8 format) Followings are settings on my box + For Xfree86 config files (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale): locale.dir -> I inserted: en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE:
vi_VN.UTF-8 locale.alias -> I did nothing compose.dir -> I inserted: en_US.UTF-8/Compose:
vi_VN.UTF-8 (The Compose file is the good one received from MandrakeSoftGroup - [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I think the
“Compose” file is not critical here. It’s main role is just for typing issue –
Maybe I’m wrong ??) + For locale definition at libc level localedef -i vi_VN -f UTF-8 vi_VN.utf8 (vi_VN and UTF-8 files: already included with RedHat
distro CD sets: They reside in /usr/share/i18n/locale and
/usr/share/i18n/charmaps respectively) + For default LANG at startup /etc/sysconfig/i18n -> LANG=vi_VN.UTF-8 Now I’d like to switch to RedHat7.2 (Xfree86-4.1.0;
glibc-2.2.4) cause they say: RedHat7.2 is capable to
support wider range of both: VGA and soundCards. But things go stranger when applying configurations
mentioned above -> newly installed RedHat7.2 system. Instead of real
unicode characters, Xwindow just displays the coresponding UTF-8 strings (the problem happenned
with all accented unicode characters). For example: <dead_grave>
<uhorn> : "ừ" U1eeb -> ừ (uhorn <-> U01b0) Trying a
while, I found that: vi_VN files included in RedHat7.1 and RedHat7.2 are so different
(by using ‘diff’ utility). Maybe it’s a reason ?? Can anyone of
you point me the right way?? The second
thing annoying me so much during last 3 moths is: “Tying unicode characters in
Xwindows – with LANG=vi_VN.UTF-8” (on RedHat7.1: Xfree86-4.0.3;
glibc-2.2.2) Here is a
configuration I made for xkb /etc/X11/Xf86Config -> { #XkbDisable XkbKeycodes "Xfree86" XkbTypes "default" XkbCompat "default" XkbSymbols "us(pc101)" XkbGeometry "pc" XkbRules "xfree86" XkbModels "pc101" XkbLayout "vn_utf8" } (Typing mode is based on keysym combinations defined in “Compose”
file: <dead_key> + something; <Multi_key> + something) When starting X with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 -> I can type, and have
correct unicode characters displayed in serveral apps: Mozilla, gnumeric,
OpenOffice, ... But If I start X with LANG=vi_VN.UTF-8 -> all accented
unicode characters I typed are being displayed in form of corr UTF8
strings – in all apps, except OpenOffice (stranger ??) I wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
got some good tips to cope with it. But the final solution is still somewhere
in the “AIR” (I don't
mention here the file "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/vn_utf8"
(including key, dead_key definitions for xkb) as it works very well in
en_US.UTF-8 env.) Any tips for
this issue ?? Nguyen quoc
Binh |
