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

[Panayotis Katsaloulis]

On Jan 24, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Jochem Liem wrote:

> 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.


I had the same problem with greek alphabet.
If you update to the latest version of XQuartz and enable the option "Follow system keyboard layout", this should solve your problem.