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- From: rr2b+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Robert Andrew Ryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: National characters in texts
- Message-ID: <wfEnStG00WoiMIG2hW@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 18:11:05 GMT
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- Excerpts from internet.other.info-andrew: 30-Dec-92 National characters
- in texts Rainer Klute@ucbvax.Berk (642)
-
- > What annoys me is that typing a national character (i. e. a German
- > umlaut) in, say, ez crashes the application. Is this regarded as usual
- > behavior, could it be due to my unusual installation, or did I miss
- > anything in the documentation?
-
- This is certainly not normal behavior. Which version of Andrew are you
- using? (5.1 is the latest public release) Check that
- $ANDREWDIR/lib/compchar exists and contains the single readable file
- comps. It should start out like below...
-
- # Standard composites file for CompChar, contains mappings for
- # most ISO language characters and symbol and symbola font characters.
- ag xe0 a\*(l`
- aa 225 a\*(l'
- a^ 226 a\*(l^
- a~ 227 a\*(l~
- a: 228 a\*(l:
-
- Unfortunately ATK applications running under X are set up to send most
- error messages to the ATK console program, so there may be a message
- explaining the failure which isn't being displayed. To avoid this you
- could edit xim.c so that the first statement in xim_Establish console is
- "return;" This way most error messages will appear on stderr, usually
- the tty the program started from.
-
- -Rob Ryan
- Andrew Consortium
-