Re: emacsclient unable to handle cedille ç

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On Sunday, November 18, 2012 8:09:23 PM UTC-3, William Gardella wrote:
> Hello,
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> Ed Kostas writes:
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> > It seems that the problem lies in the use of the daemon. If I run
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> > emacs with the --iconic option, everything works perfectly well:
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> > emacs --eval "(server-start)" --iconic --quiet &
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> > Now I can run an emacsclient and it works perfectly well (slightly
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> > slower than vim, though).
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> > #!/bin/bash
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> > emacsclient -q -t "$@"
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> > #Put this file in  /usr/bin/ed
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> > #You will need sudo for that
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> > I don't like this solution very much, because the icon stays hanging
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> > somewhere on the Desktop. I would be pleased if somebody could tell me
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> > how to make the daemon work.
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> I use emacsclient frames and --daemon exclusively and cannot reproduce
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> this error (Emacs 24.2.1, compiled from release tarball on Debian
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> GNU/Linux 7.0), so this is likely a configuration problem.
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> Best,
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> WGG

The bug may be connected with GTK, and depends the way utf-8 is implemented. Another person in this group had the same problem. The solution consists in recompiling Emacs with lucid, and xaw3dg. Here is what I did:

~/$ sudo apt-get install xaw3dg-dev

~/emacs-24.2$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-x-toolkit=lucid

~/emacs-24.2$ make

~/emacs-24.2$ make install

A few people reported that the lucid gadgets may not support well Emacs menus. In my case, the cedilla problem was solved, and I did not have the menus are working perfectly well.