[ILUG] UTF-8, how to type ``Latin Small Letter e With Acute''?

[David Neary]

Brian Foster wrote:
> 
>  I've been playing with using UTF-8 encoding (rather than
>  ISO-8859-15) with the Xfree86 v4.<something> supplied with
>  my SuSE 7.3 system.  whilst there are numerous niggles,
>  the issue currently driving me batty is I cannot figure out
>  how to input (type in) characters such as  e  (Latin Small
>  Letter e with Acute; that is, ISO-8859-15 code E9 hex, or
>  UTF-8 octet stream C3 A9 hex) from my UK+€ (English) QWERTY
>  keyboard.

Either use an editor which supports UTF-8 (such as emacs or vim 
with the necessary extentions, which I've never managed to get
right, or gedit-2, or Mozilla composer), and do the compose-e-'
thing, followed by an explicit "save encoded as UTF-8", or use
some kind of token to replace it (I ended up replacing all the
és with &eacute; in my html CV).

>  I'm using ``xterm -u8'' with an ISO-10646-1 font that has the
>  necessary  e  glyph, and (AFAIK) the locale is consistent (and
>  not relevant?).  sans ``-u8'' COMPOSE works, so it's not an
>  xterm(1) problem per se (unlike, or so it seems, Eterm(1)).

Afriad I don't know anthing about utf-8 xterm :) Sorry. You could
use some kind of utility to utf-8ise your iso-8859-15 document
(it would be trivial to throw such a utility together using the
glib2 api). Aside from that, I'm afraid I'm no help :(

Cheers,
Dave.

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       David Neary,
    Marseille, France
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