[arch-general] Accented characters in X terminal?

[Mauro Santos]

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

You will probably have to tweak your KEYMAP and CONSOLEFONT settings in
/etc/rc.conf. I remember that a while back I've changed it so I could
get accented characters in ttys, however I don't remember well if things
worked in terminal emulators but I think it did work fine (I use XFCE
and terminal as a terminal emulator). For the record I'm using and I've
always used bash.

For reference/example this is what I have in /etc/rc.conf
KEYMAP="pt-latin9 compose.latin1"
CONSOLEFONT="lat9v-16"



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Mauro Santos