When using Xmonad.Util.Paste I'm trying to paste a ö character with pasteString but nothing appears. How can I paste this character?
I tried to use:
, ((mod4Mask , xK_o ), pasteString "ö")
But this gave me a compilation error (which I expected): lexical error in string/character literal (UTF-8 decoding error) So I looked up the corresponding escape sequence here and tried the following line:
, ((mod4Mask , xK_o ), pasteString "\x00f6")
This compiled fine but when pressing the key combination nothing seems to appear (I tried it with a regular string and it worked fine, also pasteSelection works like intended). What am I doing wrong?
On a side note: I also tried \x00F6 but it didn't make any difference. Also I'm using ghc version 7.8.4.
I found this cheatsheet for haskell, so I tried the string \xC\&4 which results in ,4. When only using \&4 it results in 4 and when using \x2C it prints ,.
It seems like XMonad.Util.Paste doesn't work with Umlauts at all, as mentioned the function pasteSelection works. But when selecting an ö character it doesn't. So I guess I need to use xdotool or something similar.
Your help would be appreciated a lot, thanks for looking at this issue!
pasteString maps pasteChar over each char in the string; pasteChar, in turn, have trouble with non-ASCII characters, which is stated in the comments to the source code:
Note that this function makes use of 'stringToKeysym', and so will probably have trouble with any 'Char' outside ASCII.
In light of that, I suggest setting up an X Compose key, where you can type "ö" with Compose o ".