On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 07/12/2010 11:51 AM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have been fiddling on and off for a few months now trying to get >> Unicode font display in Terminal, which per the Gentoo Unicode docs as >> well as its own, supports UTF-8 character sets. However, special >> characters are not displayed. The font in use is DejaVu Sans Mono, >> which ought to support simple accented characters and other Unicode >> glyphs. The results of `locale` are as follows: >> >> t...@saya ~ $ locale >> LANG=en_US.utf8 >> LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" >> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8" >> LC_TIME="en_US.utf8" >> LC_COLLATE=C >> LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8" >> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" >> LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8" >> LC_NAME="en_US.utf8" >> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8" >> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8" >> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8" >> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8" >> LC_ALL= >> >> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? >> >> Thanks! >> > Try en_US.UTF-8 instead. > > > That did it. Thanks!
I am confused, though. Why am I setting LANG, etc, to "en_US.UTF-8" when locale -a says "en_US.utf8"? For now I am happy that it works. Thanks again. -Andy
