nedit and utf8

[Patrick Dupre]

Hello,

How can I get the right display of the character
Σ

with nedit?

Thank.

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[Ed Greshko]

On 10/29/18 8:21 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>  How can I get the right display of the character
>  Σ
>
>  with nedit? 
AFAIK nedit doesn't support UTF8.  As a matter of fact if you start if from the
command
line to edit a file with that symbol.

[egreshko@f29bk ~]$ nedit sym
nedit: the current locale is utf8 (en_US.UTF-8)
nedit: changed locale to non-utf8 (en_US)

Along with that, nedit uses xorg-x11-fonts which I don't think have UFT8 support.

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then tell them what you told them."

[Wolfgang Pfeiffer]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:21:20AM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How can I get the right display of the character
> Σ
>
> with nedit? 
I doubt it has much to do with your "nedit" - but probably much more
with your keyboard settings.

Provided you have xmodmap installed: I'd nearly bet this command
will result in nothing on your OS:

xmodmap -pke | egrep -i sigma

Here's what I get:
xmodmap -pke | egrep -i sigma
keycode  39 = s S s S Greek_SIGMA Greek_SIGMA U017F U1E9E s S

and this is Sigma here:
Σ

This is how I set it up, for the current session:
xmodmap -e "keycode 39 = s S s S Greek_SIGMA Greek_SIGMA U017F U1E9E s S U017F
U1E9E"

Long time ago I had a page, with hints on how to set up a keyboard -
only the archived version is still available:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041205031207fw_/http://wolfgangpfeiffer.com:...

How:
xmodmap -pke > ~/.xmodmap # This is your current keyboard settings piped into
                          # ~/.xmodap - but if this file is already there, back
			  # it up before doing anything

Start xev in a terminal, type 's' - check the keycode number - if it's
e.g. 39, have a look to your ~/.xmodmap you created before, search for the
"keycode  39 = "line

If it looks like this:
keycode  39 = s S s S U017F U1E9E U017F U1E9E s S U017F U1E9E

you might be able to change it by doing this:
xmodmap -e "keycode 39 = s S s S Greek_SIGMA Greek_SIGMA U017F U1E9E s S U017F
U1E9E"

To go back to default:
xmodmap ~/.xmodmap     # Remember above: 'xmodmap -pke > ~/.xmodmap'

Depending on your Desktop Env. you might be able to change there your
keyboard output.

Read man xmodmap. Please don't copy the commands above without
checking before what they do ...

And be very careful with your keyboard: you need its settings to type
e.g. passwds ....

Wolfgang