Re: [arch-general] Accented characters in X terminal?

Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti [2011.12.14 1450 -0200]:

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Mauro Santos wrote:

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On 14-12-2011 12:48, Magnus Therning wrote:

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I just noticed that I no longer get accented characters in my terminals (I've tested lxterminal and gnome-terminal so far).  Instead of the Swedish characters "åäö" I get "???".  Far from ideal.  This used to work a while ago (we're talking days, possibly weeks).  As you notice it works well in non-terminals (like in Chromium where I've writing this).  Anyone else seeing the same behaviour?

A search turned up this answer-less forum post[1] , if there's an answer then I'll re-post it there too :)

/M

[1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=131000

Long shot here, but this could be ibus related. See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123409

I can see the characters just fine in your email, and I'm reading this in mutt running in an xterm. My situation is that I don't want to type any of these characters but want them to display correctly. Following the information on http://fedoraforums.org/form/archive/index.php/t-66116.html and a few other google hits I've forgotten by now, I have the following in my .Xdefaults to get these characters to display fine while not producing any strange characters using e.g. Meta-A. XTerm.utf8: 1 XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true XTerm*eightBitInput: false XTerm*eightBitControl: false XTerm*eightBitOutput: true Look at the xterm manpage to see what these do. If you don't use xterm but something else, I would suspect there are similar options you can set to get this to work. Cheers, Norbert