On Dec 1, 2003, Andre Costa acosta@ar.microlink.com.br wrote:
So, to be fair (and I have been on my original msg ;)), I might be missing something -- and I wouldn't be surprised if I was. How do you deal with UTF-8 + Brazilian Portuguese + X11 + vim etc.?
I use us_intl as my keyboard configuration (since I don't have any ABNT2 keyboards :-), and use Compose comma c to generate ç. This works in all applications I've tried, both text applications started from within gnome-terminal and graphical applications.
"The input of non-ASCII characters from the system console is not possible; only graphical applications support the input of these characters."
--> this was exactly what I was experiencing with console vim
'fraid I can't help with this one. Certainly the X11 configuration won't make any difference here.
Even if I switch to gvim (assuming it handles UTF-8 nicely), it might not solve the problem, because I was experiencing probls with gaim, for example ('ç' appeared as 'c-grave' or something like this).
I haven't tried gaim. I use xchat, and it works for me, even though the IRC protocol didn't define a standard encoding or some mechanism to communicate the encoding last I looked.