On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 11:50 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > So a mail reader should convert from the mails locale to > the terminals locale if possible (Which mutt does fine with for example this > mail when in an utf-8 terminal).. That's not a problem of the terminal.
Wouldn't it make sense for gnome-terminal to try to convert what it can of a pasted string (copied from a different encoding) and just leave blanks or something for characters that it can't copy? At the moment it refuses to paste the string at all if it contains characters it can't convert. I have attached a file that demonstrates this. Set gnome-terminal to use ISO-8859-1 encoding. Then try copying the lines in the attached file into gnome-terminal. The first line should copy fine but the second will fail silently (it uses a Unicode mu). On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 11:24 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > With utf-8 set in gdm, gnome-terminal, and my .bashrc (my ssh login > sessions seem to revert back to POSIX/C otherwise), that conversion > works, in mutt, tin, and vi. If you have root on the machine using "pkg-reconfigure locales" and selecting a Unicode locale as the default system locale should mean you only have to make the change in one place.
works  (Unicode Block: Latin-1 Supplement) doesn't work Π(Unicode Block: Greek and Coptic)