From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on sa.local.altlinux.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 23:06:42 +0100 From: Ken Moffat To: Linux console tools development discussion Message-ID: <20200528220642.GA11577@llamedos.localdomain> References: <20200516162009.GA8332@i7> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20200516162009.GA8332@i7> User-Agent: Mutt/1.14.2 (2020-05-25) Subject: Re: [kbd] Plus instead acute accent X-BeenThere: kbd@lists.altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Linux console tools development discussion List-Id: Linux console tools development discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 22:06:47 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 06:20:09PM +0200, DGSJ wrote: > Hello: > I'm working in a customized Linux distro for Raspberry Pi 3 B+, in 64-bit > architecture, with a Raspbrerry kernel, version 5.6.4-v8+. > > I'm using to control the terminal kbd-2.2.0, cross-compiled from source, > and Graft as package manager. > > I'm having a problem with Spanish acute accents in vowels. If you try to > write an acute accented vowel, for example ?, this is what yo see in the > screen: > > $> +a > [...] > > Regarding the environmental and console variables: > LANG=es_ES.ISO-8859-15@euro > TERM=Linux > FONT=lat0-16 > I had trouble understanding the '?' in your mail - like that sentence above. I'm guessing from '+a' that it should be a-acute. I wonder if perhaps your LANG is the problem ? Most people use UTF-8 these days, so although the values for non-ASCII European letters might be the same, they may use two bytes in UTF-8, instead of one byte is 8859 variants. The list mail claimed to be in UTF-8: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 So from that a-acute should be á : if that shows up as two characters for you then the LANG is almost certainly one of the problems (but obviously doesn't of itself answer Alexey's question about dead keys). I forget the details of that font, but another possible problem is that if a font does not support a particular codepoint it might display a 'filler' - ideally an inverted-colours question mark, but sometimes a square or dot or blank space or regular question mark. ĸen -- Do you not know that, what you belittle by the name tree is but the mere four-dimensional analogue of a whole multidimensional universe which - no, I can see you do not. -- Druellae (a Dryad)