Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] Arabic and mlterm

[Nicholas H. <he...@es...>]

Minami,

	I'm not sure how I did it, but with Debian's "dpkg-reconfigure
locales" command I was able to change my whole locale from POSIX to
en_US.UTF-8.  Now I can launch mlterm from any terminal and from the icon
also and it works beautifully.  :-)  Thanks so much for all your help.

Nicholas

On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, MINAMI Hirokazu wrote:

> Nicholas Heer wrote:
> > So it seems that mlterm works
> > when LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8, but does not work when LC_CTYPE="POSIX".
>
> Sorry, your uxterm seems to tweak LC_CTYPE, not LANG.
>
> If your locale is POSIX,
> mlterm will assume you are using ISO-8859-1 (to make dummies happy)
> and do not try to parse its input as UTF-8.
> It's not surprising you cannot see Arabic in this case.
>
> >  So is
> > there any way to change LC_CTYPE from "POSIX" to en_US.UTF-8?  I've looked
> > in all my Linux and Unix books for an explanation of how to change locales
> > and I can't find anything.  And I can't understand the man pages for
>  > locale and setlocale.
>
> LC_CTYPE is just yet another environment variable used to override LANG.
> As far as LC_CTYPE is one of a UTF-8 locale, mlterm will accept
> UTF-8 by default (even if LANG is undefined/POSIX/C/etc).
>
> However, if you don't have to use different values for LANG and
> LC_CTYPE, you should leave LC_CTYPE undefined and use LANG.
>
> Please try
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8 mlterm
> and if this works, consider to change LANG to be en_US.UTF-8.
>
> >  It doesn't matter, however, if I don't succeed in
> > changing the locale since I can always run mlterm from an uxterm, but I'm
> > curious as to why mlterm acts this way on my computer.
>
> Basically, mlterm and application running on mlterm must agree
> which encoding to use. The encoding must of course support
> the character set you want (in this case, Arabic).
>
> Since uxterm seems to set LC_CTYPE to a UTF-8 locale,
> mlterm launched from uxterm and apps run from the mlterm
> will use UTF-8 (ignoring LANG).
> You should be able to use Arabic in this case.
>
> If neither LANG nor LC_CTYPE was defined, you can't expect so much.
>
> Is this clear enough?
>
> minami
>
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