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5 Can't type or paste non-ASCII characters in local terminal - ID: 1623392

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Details:

Expected behavior:
Typing or pasting text with non-ASCII characters should work.

Actual behavior:
Text doesn't get inserted at all when containing non-ASCII characters.

Attempt to reproduce 1:
* Open new terminal with Cmd+N
* type option+e (acute accent dead key)
* -> a little acute accent compose thingy appears
* type "e"
* the little acute accent disappears. no "é" was inserted

Attempt to reproduce 2:
* Select and copy this text from your web browser, including the quotes:
"é"
* Open new terminal with Cmd+N
* Paste with cmd+V
* -> displays "" (quotes but no é character)

Note that I do see the characters fine if I, say, cat a file to the
terminal. But I can't type or paste them at the shell.

In a regular Terminal terminal I can type and paste these chars, though
they show on the terminal prompt as escapes (\303\251).

In vi, I do seem to be able to type them, but not in bash.

Mac OS X 10.4.8 / Intel, iTerm Build 0.9.4.1221.1

Language is English; no change whether I select UTF-8 or Latin-1 (MacRoman
or Windows) as encoding in session info, though UTF-8 should be correct.

Submitted:

Brion Vibber ( vibber ) - 2006-12-28 06:50

Priority:

Status:

Closed

Resolution:

Out of Date

Assigned:

Nobody/Anonymous

Category:

screen emulation

Group:

None

Visibility:

Public

Comments ( 10 )

Date: 2009-03-09 00:41 Sender: nobody xkxdx5 11833447 ttogpr [URL=http://webpaulo.com/pedro/fahrrad/] fahrrad [/URL] <a href="http://webpaulo.com/pedro/fahrrad/"> fahrrad </a> http://webpaulo.com/pedro/fahrrad/
Date: 2009-03-09 00:37 Sender: nobody xkxdx5 11833447 ttogpr [URL=http://webpaulo.com/pedro/fahrrad/] fahrrad [/URL] <a href="http://webpaulo.com/pedro/fahrrad/"> fahrrad </a> http://webpaulo.com/pedro/fahrrad/
Date: 2007-01-08 13:35 Sender: vinc17 Instead of LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8, you can probably use LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8, as only LC_CTYPE is important concerning the encoding.
Date: 2007-01-06 05:09 Sender: clytie There _is_ no Vietnamese UTF-8 locale for OSX. The GUI supports Vietnamese natively in UTF-8, but there is no vi_VN.UTF-8 locale in the system. I am currently trying to create one. Meanwhile, I use: export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 export LANGUAGE=vi as a workaround. :S
Date: 2007-01-04 16:05 Sender: vinc17 Your locales are probably wrong. Check the output of locale and perl -e "" (perl will tell you if setting locales fail, while most programs silently ignore such errors.)
Date: 2007-01-04 05:00 Sender: clytie Yes, it does vary. I can input UTF8 text fine in bash 3. Following the "Internationalizing your Terminal" article's instructions, I also installed a newer bash and coreutils via fink, so if you haven't done that, I think you will find it will help. It definitely depends on the routines handling the data. I can now input UTF-8 text in bash, I can find UTF-8 filenames, and "find" displays them correctly, but "ls" doesn't. I haven't tested translated manpages yet. So I think as long as we follow this workaround, iTerm is basically doing its job, and it comes down to the base software installed. I wonder where we can get a newer "ls"?
Date: 2007-01-04 01:34 Sender: yfabian Thanks for sharing the tips, Clytie. I mainly tested iTerm with Chinese input methods. Results are similar to what you described. It largely doesn't work in bash, but it does work with some other programs. So I don't think iTerm is the culprit.
Date: 2007-01-01 04:04 Sender: nobody Logged In: NO (Note: I had to input this without logging in because yet again I couldn't login to SF. It's an ongoing problem. :( ) Tom Gewecke (of Multilingual Mac [3] fame) has produced a workaround [4] at the Apple Discussions fora: ___ Do these settings help for you in Terminal? Also make sure you have a font selected which has all the characters. * In the Terminal Inspector: o In the Emulation section, turn off the Escape non-ASCII characters option. o In the Display section, choose Unicode (UTF-8) as the Character Set Encoding. * Add the following line to your .profile: export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 * Add the following lines to your .inputrc: set meta-flag on set input-meta on set output-meta on set convert-meta off * Apply changes by doing a source ~/.profile and a source ~/.inputrc. ___ They certainly work for me. I can now input Vietnamese UTF8 text in iTerm. Do they work for you? If this workaround on its own doesn't work for you, have a look at the Internationalizing your Terminal article http://www.rift.dk/news.php?item.7.6> and follow its instructions. I did both, so I don't know if they work in combination, or whether Tom's workaround is enough on its own. Clytie
Date: 2006-12-31 04:36 Sender: clytie Please see <http://www.rift.dk/news.php?item.7.6> which discusses the issues in internationalizing the terminal on Mac OSX, including those affecting iTerm. Even when following all the instructions on that page, iTerm does not improve. iTerm displays Vietnamese (UTF-8, Roman alphabet, combined diacritics, de facto test case for Unicode support) correctly, but it does not input it at all. Using my OSX Vietnamese keyboard layout, I can't input any of the non-ASCII characters, even those requiring only one keypress. Even xterm originally input the single-keypress characters. Please see this article (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/X11Keymaps) for a workaround for the character-input issue in xterm. I am now able to input Vietnamese with no problems in xterm. Can we create or access different keymaps from iTerm? If so, how? This is a critical issue for users of non-English languages. Clytie Siddall Vietnamese Free-Software Translation Team
Date: 2006-12-31 04:35 Sender: clytie Please see <http://www.rift.dk/news.php?item.7.6> which discusses the issues in internationalizing the terminal on Mac OSX, including those affecting iTerm. Even when following all the instructions on that page, iTerm does not improve. iTerm displays Vietnamese (UTF-8, Roman alphabet, combined diacritics, de facto test case for Unicode support) correctly, but it does not input it at all. Using my OSX Vietnamese keyboard layout, I can't input any of the non-ASCII characters, even those requiring only one keypress. Even xterm originally input the single-keypress characters. Please see this article (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/X11Keymaps) for a workaround for the character-input issue in xterm. I am now able to input Vietnamese with no problems in xterm. Can we create or access different keymaps from iTerm? If so, how? This is a critical issue for users of non-English languages. Clytie Siddall Vietnamese Free-Software Translation Team

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status_id	Open	2007-03-15 22:52	yfabian
resolution_id	None	2007-03-15 22:52	yfabian
close_date	-	2007-03-15 22:52	yfabian

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