P2O2 WWW - Polish Chars in X Window Apps

Created - Apr 31, 2007  |  Modified - Sep 20, 2007

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Setting Demands

1. English language in system
2. English language in applications
3. Polish characters in X Window apps (in all entry fields)
4. Polish characters in X Window terminals
5. Polish characters in consoles are negligible

Setting Polish Charset

ISO8859-2

When using Bash shell all language settings should be done in ${HOME}/.profile file. Terminals can be set via ${HOME}/.Xdefaults.

${HOME}/.profile

    # LANG is unset!
    #
    # export LANG=pl_PL.ISO8859-2

    export LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.ISO8859-2
    export CHARSET=ISO8859-2
    export LC_ALL=""
    

Additional settings in .profile

    # PATH to program binaries on NetBSD FTP
    #
    PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages-2007Q1/NetBSD-3.1/i386/All
    export PKG_PATH

    # Sylpheed demanded it
    #
    export G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale

    # gqview cried for it
    #
    export G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
    

${HOME}/.Xdefaults

    XTerm*font:  -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2
    XTerm*scrollBar: true
    XTerm*saveLines: 1024
    

UTF-8

${HOME}/.profile

    export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
    export LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
    export LC_ALL=""
    

Setting X Window System

Polish Programmer

/etc/XF86Config

    Section "InputDevice"
	    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	    Driver      "keyboard"
	    Option "XkbKeyboard" "pc104"
	    Option "XkbLayout" "pl"
    EndSection
    

Polish Typist

/etc/XF86Config

    Section "InputDevice"
	    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	    Driver      "keyboard"
	    Option "XkbKeyboard" "pc104"
	    Option "XkbLayout" "pl2"
    #	Option "XkbVariant" "qwertz"
    EndSection
    

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/pl2

    (...)
    key <BKSL>	{ [    oacute,     zacute,   dead_grave,   dead_breve ]	};
    key <AB03>	{ [         c,          C,         cent,    copyright ]	};

    This line MUST be added after key <AB03>(...):
    ----------------------------------------------
    key <AB10>	{ [     minus, underscore,      notsign,      notsign ]	};
    (...)