Re: Unicode compose map?
> The alternative to the compose mechanism -- using the input method > mechanism -- is just too nasty to consider. End of offtopic.) Is that the same as the 'altgr' key? No. It's a mechansim that allows a separate process to do dictionary lookups for East-Asian input. The protocol is hopelessly obfuscated (you know, job security for East-Asian i18n people). Great. Can you either send me the compose files, or point me to the correct cvs directory? I dont want to check out the entire source tree to get two files :) Cvsweb is your friend (somewhere on www.xfree86.org). Look for xc/nls/compose.dir and for xc/nls/Compose/en_US.UTF-8. Juliusz
Re: Unicode compose map?
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:21:47PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > The alternative to the compose mechanism -- using the input method > mechanism -- is just too nasty to consider. End of offtopic.) Is that the same as the 'altgr' key? > I can personally confirm that the non-Greek compose file does contain > entries for the ISO 8859-2 characters needed for Polish; it probably > contains all combinations that you need, but I haven't checked myself. Great. Can you either send me the compose files, or point me to the correct cvs directory? I dont want to check out the entire source tree to get two files :) In the mean time, I also stumbled across an updated version of the debian-utf8 howto: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/howto.html They mention a compose map by Pablo Saratxaga, but I didnt get a chance to try it out yet. > Note that the above applies to current XFree86 CVS; I don't know what > the status of 4.2.0 is. Note furthermore that if you're working with > UTF-8, you really ought to upgrade your X libraries to 4.2.0 or later. I havent noticed any problems so far, but I'm not using it thought the entire X Window system. My general locale is en_US, and I set it to en_US.UTF-8 only if TERM=xterm|screen. This is mainly because I use gnome, which is unable to display any text if I try to use unicode. Would 4.2.0 libs help with that problem? Thanks, Norbert pgpmRRCRavxvS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Unicode compose map?
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:21:47PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > The alternative to the compose mechanism -- using the input method > mechanism -- is just too nasty to consider. End of offtopic.) Is that the same as the 'altgr' key? > I can personally confirm that the non-Greek compose file does contain > entries for the ISO 8859-2 characters needed for Polish; it probably > contains all combinations that you need, but I haven't checked myself. Great. Can you either send me the compose files, or point me to the correct cvs directory? I dont want to check out the entire source tree to get two files :) In the mean time, I also stumbled across an updated version of the debian-utf8 howto: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/howto.html They mention a compose map by Pablo Saratxaga, but I didnt get a chance to try it out yet. > Note that the above applies to current XFree86 CVS; I don't know what > the status of 4.2.0 is. Note furthermore that if you're working with > UTF-8, you really ought to upgrade your X libraries to 4.2.0 or later. I havent noticed any problems so far, but I'm not using it thought the entire X Window system. My general locale is en_US, and I set it to en_US.UTF-8 only if TERM=xterm|screen. This is mainly because I use gnome, which is unable to display any text if I try to use unicode. Would 4.2.0 libs help with that problem? Thanks, Norbert msg03835/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Unicode compose map?
NV> I recently switched to the en_US.UTF-8 locale. In NV> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale, I see the compose maps for the various NV> character sets, however there isnt one for en_US.UTF-8. As far as I can NV> tell, this locale uses the compose map from iso8859-1 (though I couldnt NV> figure out how/why). This is fixed upstream. At the time 4.1.0 was produced, we didn't have a reasonable compose file for UTF-8, and so it was decided to stick with the ISO 8859-1 compose file for UTF-8 locales. Current XFree86 CVS has two reasonably complete compose files for UTF-8 locales: one which is used in all UTF-8 locales other than the Greek one, and one with support for Polytonic Greek that is only used in Greek locales. (Offtopic: it is fairly clear that user preferences for compose sequences do depend on the user's language, and therefore the locale. I have no doubt that in time more locale-specific UTF-8 compose files will be included. The alternative to the compose mechanism -- using the input method mechanism -- is just too nasty to consider. End of offtopic.) I can personally confirm that the non-Greek compose file does contain entries for the ISO 8859-2 characters needed for Polish; it probably contains all combinations that you need, but I haven't checked myself. Note that the above applies to current XFree86 CVS; I don't know what the status of 4.2.0 is. Note furthermore that if you're working with UTF-8, you really ought to upgrade your X libraries to 4.2.0 or later. Juliusz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unicode compose map?
NV> I recently switched to the en_US.UTF-8 locale. In NV> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale, I see the compose maps for the various NV> character sets, however there isnt one for en_US.UTF-8. As far as I can NV> tell, this locale uses the compose map from iso8859-1 (though I couldnt NV> figure out how/why). This is fixed upstream. At the time 4.1.0 was produced, we didn't have a reasonable compose file for UTF-8, and so it was decided to stick with the ISO 8859-1 compose file for UTF-8 locales. Current XFree86 CVS has two reasonably complete compose files for UTF-8 locales: one which is used in all UTF-8 locales other than the Greek one, and one with support for Polytonic Greek that is only used in Greek locales. (Offtopic: it is fairly clear that user preferences for compose sequences do depend on the user's language, and therefore the locale. I have no doubt that in time more locale-specific UTF-8 compose files will be included. The alternative to the compose mechanism -- using the input method mechanism -- is just too nasty to consider. End of offtopic.) I can personally confirm that the non-Greek compose file does contain entries for the ISO 8859-2 characters needed for Polish; it probably contains all combinations that you need, but I haven't checked myself. Note that the above applies to current XFree86 CVS; I don't know what the status of 4.2.0 is. Note furthermore that if you're working with UTF-8, you really ought to upgrade your X libraries to 4.2.0 or later. Juliusz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
