Typing in different alphabets in X11 applications? UTF-8 support?

[Jochem Liem]

Wow, that´s it. Many thanks!

Jochem

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Panayotis Katsaloulis
<panayotis at panayotis.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 24, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Jochem Liem wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm trying to type in non-latin alphabets (Spanish, Bulgarian and
>> Hebrew) in X11 applications, however the characters are always shown
>> as latin. In the terminal, the characters are displayed correctly,
>> however, within an X11 application they show up in the Latin alphabet.
>> For example, I can type Добре (in Bulgarian) in the terminal, however,
>> when I type the same in gedit it uses the latin alphabet (Dobre). The
>> same is true for accents in Spanish. I can write Café in the terminal,
>> but in gedit it appears as Caf'e.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Below some of the things
>> that I have already tried.
>
>
> I had the same problem with greek alphabet.
> If you update to the latest version of XQuartz and enable the option "Follow system keyboard layout", this should solve your problem.
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