[25661] in Athena Bugs
Re: xterm no longer correctly displays accented characters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue May 25 15:50:48 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Matthew Belmonte <belmonte@mit.edu>
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I have for you a workaround. I'm assuming you're using gnome-terminal.
In the 'Terminal' menu, choose 'Character Coding', then 'Add or
Remove'. Scroll down the left-hand menu until you reach the end, then
pick the line which says 'Western' in the left column and 'ISO-8859-1'
in the right. Then click 'Add' at the bottom left, and then 'Close'.
You only have to do this part once.
Now, again in the 'Terminal' menu, choose 'Character Coding' and select
"Western (ISO-8859-1)". There won't be any immediate effect on the
screen, but accented characters should display properly from then on.
You have to do this part each time you fire up a gnome-terminal, I
think; I can't find any profile options for setting a default character
encoding, and there appears to be something broken about determining the
current locale such that it always chooses ANSI as the default encoding.
I will be looking into improving some aspects of the character encoding
situation, but in the long run, the Unix world is moving toward UTF-8,
and Pine doesn't appear to be smart enough to do character set
conversions, so your particular situation may never work well by
default.
