[arch-general] Accented characters in X terminal?

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 01:21:20PM +0000, Mauro Santos wrote:
> 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"

So, what has changed in the last few weeks that would make my old,
working configuration no longer work?

/M

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