On 11 June 2012 09:11, anti <anti@lavabit.com> wrote:
I noticed today that my zsh-prompt in the tty's didn't show the same letters as in the terminal emulators. First I thought I might have a corrupted ~/.zshrc.local, but while it showed the correct encoding in geany as well as in the terminal editors in X, it showed a sequence of letters (sth like "ßäü") instead of "┌─" when editing it in the tty. Invoking 'locale -a' shows as possible locales "en_GB.utf8", while my locale in rc.conf was set to "en_GB.UTF-8". Changing the line in rc.conf to the locale given by locale -a and rebooting solved the problem. My questions: [...]
I don't know direct answers to your questions, but I have noticed there has been confusion regarding *.UTF-8 and *.utf8 locale postfix. Here is similar thread on the forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142848 I followed-up asking for clarification, ideally on the Wiki: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1112328#p1112328 but no responses so far. IMO, it would be good to have it clarified. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net