[Linux] Cannot enter accented characters with keyboard
lazarus / 65-FV-Textmode IDE

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Roland57 · 2022-07-31 12:06

Hello!

Here is what I get when I try to type "Hélène" in FP IDE. 

But when I open old source files with accented characters, the
characters are correctly displayed.

Is it the expected behaviour?

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PascalDragon · 2022-07-31 12:29

The text mode IDE does not support UTF-8 (this will improve with
3.3.1), however by default Linux terminals use UTF-8. Your older files
are probably stored in some single Byte encoding (e.g. ISO-8859-1);
take a look at them with a hex editor to check whether the accented
characters consist of one or multi Byte.

So, yes, this is the expected behavior.

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Roland57 · 2022-07-31 14:56

Thank you for the confirmation.