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Altoid

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Registered: 2017-05-07

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L3afpad

Hello:

Anyone here use [l3afpad]?
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/pack … .18.1.11-4

Accented characters get me this pop-up:

Can't convert codeset to 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'

There seems to be no options to fix this (?).

Best,

A.

fsmithred

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Re: L3afpad

I can do it this way, but I don't know if it has what you need.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7084

https://imgur.com/a/vszdXo5

Altoid

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Re: L3afpad

Hello:

Thanks for the prompt reply.

... this way, but I don't know if it has what you need.

No, it does not have the characters I need.

My kb has these characteristics:

$ cat /etc/default/keyboard

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE
# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.
# Set for IBM 82G3294 Model 'M'
#
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="latam"
XKBVARIANT="deadtilde"
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

BACKSPACE="guess"

With those settings I can type all the characters I need with locale=[en_GB.UTF+8] on my keyboard which has a Latin American Spanish QWERTY layout, using the [AltGr] key:

á é í ó ú - Á É Í Ó Ú
à è ì ò ù - À È Ì Ò Ù
â ê î ô û - Â Ê Î Ô Û
ä ë ï ö ü - Ä Ë Ï Ö Ü

There are a lot more which I do not use but are surely useful:

¬ ¡ ⅛ £ $ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ™ ± ˛
| @ · ~ ½ { [ ] } \ ¸ and others ...

The thing is that I can type the accented characters in and they will render properly but when I try to save the file, I get the popup with the complaint.

I am resorting to [l3afpad] because [X File Writer], part of [XFE], a really nice and compact desktop agnostic file manager, has some issue I cannot solve and typing the characters usong [AltGR] is not working.

It would seem that there is some sort of conflict (sez AI):

In Linux, FOX Toolkit applications may fail to process the AltGr key due to X11 modifier mapping issues, missing Mod5 configuration, or environment translation conflicts.

and

In Devuan running XFCE, the AltGr failure occurs because XFCE uses its own internal daemon (xfce4-keyboard-settings) to manage layouts. This frequently overrides standard X11 system properties and fails to pass the third-level modifier (Mod5) down to lightweight or legacy UI toolkits like FOX Toolkit.

As a result, every application works with [AltGR] with the exception of [XFW].

[L3afpad] does not seem to have had any updates in over 10 years.

Any ideas?

Best,

A.

Last edited by Altoid (Today 17:07:55)

fsmithred

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Re: L3afpad

There's mousepad, which I don't use. There's also featherpad if you don't mind pulling in a few qt libraries. I use geany most of the time. Maybe one of those will work.

Altoid

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Re: L3afpad

Hello:

There's mousepad ...
... featherpad if you don't mind pulling in ...

I'll have a look, thanks.

... use geany most of the time.

Too much for me.
It is a programmer's editor but I need *just* a text editor so as not to have to pull up LibreOffice Writer for such a simple task.

Interesting that there being *so* many Linux text editors, one would think that the hallowed 'choice' would have generated just *one* for simple everyday text edition for the common folk such as I.

Best,

A.

Calamity

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Re: L3afpad

If it helps, Mousepad has good support for different encodings and can convert between them fairly easily. Featherpad has a very likeable UI in my opinion, but lacks many encodings (at least the version shipped with Debian), and I have not found any way to add more than the few defaults it offers.

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Altoid

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Re: L3afpad

Hello:

If it helps ...

*Everything* helps.
That is what the forum is about.  8^)

Mousepad has good support for different encodings ...

I installed [featherpad] from the Devuan repository and it seems to be working as needed.
I (think) I have everything correctly set to UTF-8 which will do.

I see it has more than what I need but it is lightweight and did not pull in anything strange.
Seems there are quite a few Qt libraries in my system.

... lacks many encodings ...

My needs are circumscribed to the accented vowels I posted previously+the ES [ñ/Ñ].

The rest of the characters provided by the KB are a bonus.

· ½ ¬ { [ ] } \
¬ ¡  ⅛ £ $ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ™ ± ° æ ß ð đ ŋ ħ ĸ ł ~
Æ ẞ Ð ª Ŋ Ħ Ł { } \ « » ¢ „ “ ” µ • · | © ‚ ‘ ’ º × ÷

Just have to remember where they are.
So I don't have to cut/paste from the web when I need ©, ™, ± or fractions.  8^°

Thanks for your input.

Best,

A.

Calamity

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Re: L3afpad

What I like about Mousepad regarding UTF-8, is that it has the option to set the BOM marker (it's tucked in the menu and off by default for every new document though), which makes it more likely that a text file will be displayed correctly somewhere else. Featherpad does not (and cannot) write BOM, but if you don't need it, it makes for a decent text editor, I think. Other than encodings, it's pretty nice - especially the ability to set your own colors. For Mousepad I had to dig out some obscure gtksourceview XML styles to at least get more choice among themes.

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