Typing in different alphabets in X11 applications? UTF-8 support?

[Jochem Liem]

Dear all,

I'm trying to type in non-latin alphabets (Spanish, Bulgarian and
Hebrew) in X11 applications, however the characters are always shown
as latin. In the terminal, the characters are displayed correctly,
however, within an X11 application they show up in the Latin alphabet.
For example, I can type Добре (in Bulgarian) in the terminal, however,
when I type the same in gedit it uses the latin alphabet (Dobre). The
same is true for accents in Spanish. I can write Café in the terminal,
but in gedit it appears as Caf'e.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Below some of the things
that I have already tried.

Best regards,
Jochem

Attempt 1: set the LC_ALL and LANG variables to en_US.UTF8 in .profile
Attempt 2: Set LC_ALL and LANG variables in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist


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