Re: problem deleting special chars

["Hartwig, Thomas" <t.hartwig@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Oliver,

thanks for your hint, this helped.

You are right, I did not restart xterm with the new LANG setting. With
that I can delete my umlauts corectly.

So I will use just "en_US" for my LANG setting.

Thanks again and have a nice day
Thomas

Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> "Hartwig, Thomas" wrote:
>
> > since my installation of zsh 4.1.1, I have problems deleting special 
> > chars in the shell. I use german layout keyboard and deleting of umlauts 
> > like "ä", "ü" does not work any more. If I want to delete such a char I 
> > have to press the backspace key twice and the position of the cursor is 
> > broken. I used zsh version below 4.0 before, so I can't tell exactly at 
> > which version this happend. This is independent from the settings of the 
> >  shell, I tested this without a zshrc as well.
>
>
> Unfortunately, zsh doesn't have full support for the UTF-8 character
> encoding. It is also the case that it never has done. Did you upgrade
> more than just zsh? Having to press backspace twice makes sense
> because, characters like ä are represented using 2 bytes in UTF-8.
>
>
> > $ echo $LANG
> > en_US.UTF-8 (other language settings tested as well)
>
>
> To try other language settings, did you just assign to LANG? The
> trouble is that your xterm is probably running in the UTF-8 locale and
> changing LANG from zsh won't change that. LANG needs to be set in
> xterm's environment when it runs.
>
> Oliver

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