[Nix-dev] Umlauts in NixOS

[Alexander Foremny]

Hello,

I changed my .Xdefaults to include the following two lines:

> XTerm*font:               -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1
> XTerm*utf8:               true

The font looks quite nice! (Thanks for that.) But unfortunately
umlauts are still not working, problems are still the same as in my
original e-mail.

Regards,
Alexander Foremny

2012/7/11 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name>:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:56:49AM +0200, Alexander Foremny wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am struggling with a few minor issues in NixOS and finally want to
>> ask how to solve them. My problem is that German umlauts are not fully
>> working.
>>
>> I can type umlauts in X11 applications and they get displayed
>> correctly. I cannot type umlauts in X11 terminal applications and they
>> don't get displayed correctly. The same applies to the console.
>>
>> I am using xterm as terminal application and zsh as user shell. Here
>> is some output I consider relevant to this issue.
>
> You have to tell xterm you want an utf8 terminal.
>
> I have in ~/.Xdefaults:
> XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1
> XTerm*utf8: true
>
> (the defaults are loaded on the X session start; use xrdb to load them at will)
>
> There are command line parameters for xterm for those, too.
>
> Regards,
> Lluís.