Re: UTF-8 in GNOME2 po files

[Martin Norbäck <d95mback dtek chalmers se>]

mån 2002-01-28 klockan 13.57 skrev Pablo Saratxaga:
> Note also that xterm has a cut and paste bug (at least the version I have),
> it wrongly converts to utf-8: the bytes composing a utf-8 char are each one
> of them converted to utf-8 as if they were latin1 chars.

Was this when cutting and pasting from an xterm from an xterm?

When cutting and pasting from a gnome-terminal in UTF-8 mode to an xterm
in UTF-8 mode, this is indeed the case, and it's not xterm's fault.

gnome-terminal supposedly puts the text in a STRING atom (which should
only be used for ISO-8859-1 strings), and xterm interprets it correctly
(as iso8859-1).

An UTF-8-aware application should use the UTF8_STRING atom when
exporting UTF-8 text.

> > I guess this needs a recent version of vim, but it works quite well for
> > me. I couldn't use unicode fonts in gnome-terminal, dunno why.
> 
> You have to set the terminal to utf-8; for that you must echo some value,
> echo -e '\033@8' 
> 
> or something like that (don't remember the exact value right now)

The escape string to use is <esc>%G

At the moment, don't use gnome-terminal for UTF-8. It's broken, and can
only be used to display UTF-8. UTF-8 input and cut and paste fails in
strange ways.

Regards,

	Martin

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