[Mlterm-dev-en] mlterm doesn't work with xkb?

[Beni C. <cb...@te...>]

[New to the list, mlterm is generally great!-]

I don't seem to get mlterm to read hebrew characters from my keyboard.  I
don't run any XIM servers, just plain xkb.  xterm in utf-8 mode works
perfectly.  I have PC with RedHat 8.0 (XFree86 4.*) - my locale is
en_US.utf-8.  Display and cut/paste of hebrew work fine (including bidi).

Is xkb known to work or not to work?  I'm trying to debug it now but I
don't understand yet what's happening.  Seems that x_xic_get_utf8_str and
friends do nothing useful because the input context pointer is NULL,
because the code to XOpenIM is never reached, because...  I'm very new to
all input handling in X so I'm not sure how it should really work...

For myself, I've fixed this with a dirty hack: I took, from latest xterm
distribution, keysym2ucs.[hc] and xutf8.[hc] which implement a simulation
of Xutf8LookupString using a lookup table (and ignoring the ic argument),
and stuck a call into it instead of return 0 in x_xic_get_utf8_str when ic
is NULL...  mlterm works nicely for me now but I know this is not the
Right Way because xterm itself doesn't use it (XFree86 has
Xutf8LookupString, I actually had to disable the #ifndefs in these files
to enable the table-based implementation despite this)...

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Beni Cherniavsky <cb...@tx...>