On 2008-01-01 20:57 +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Note that just changing the environment variable inside the terminal > won't help -- it's the terminal that needs to interpret those sequences, > so you have to run *the terminal itself* in the new locale.
Some terminals also allow to change the encoding at runtime, e.g. KDE konsole or putty. > I just > ended up setting my locale in ~/.xsession to make it stick: > > export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 > export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 The last two lines here are actually redundant. > IIRC there was a situation a few years ago where you had to install a > Unicode-enabled xterm, pass "-u", or both. Sarge dates to 2005; I'm sure > that there were X terminals in 2005 that could handle UTF-8, but I don't > know if the default xterm did. It did; the uxterm wrapper that always starts an xterm in UTF-8 mode was already present then, according to http://packages.debian.org/sarge/xterm. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
