[Nix-dev] Umlauts in NixOS

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 03:06:35PM +0200, Alexander Foremny wrote:
> I managed to solve the problem by creating more locales in configuration.nix.
> 
> > $ cat /etc/nixos/configuration.nix | grep supportedLocales
> > supportedLocales = [ "de_DE/ISO-8859-1" "de_DE at euro/ISO-8859-15" "de_DE.UTF-8/UTF-8" "en_US/ISO-8859-1" "en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8" ];
> 
> I am suspecting that having the de_DE/ISO-8859-1 locale along with a
> ISO-8859-1 font encoding in XTerm solves this issue. However, I
> switched to a 8859-15 and probably the de_DE at euro/ISO-8859-15 helps
> here. But I am only guessing.

You shouldn't need ISO-8859-1 anywhere. I've UTF-8 all around, and I use that
very often (Well, I don't use utf-8 in the vcs; I don't know even if it works
there).
Maybe you wrote the supportedLocales somehow wrong? Can you check locales work
fine for you? "ls --help" is properly localized?

Regards,
Lluís.

> 2012/7/11 Alexander Foremny <alexanderforemny at gmail.com>:
> > 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.
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