[arch-general] xfce4's terminal does not understand unicode/utf8?

Nicolas Bigaouette nbigaouette at gmail.com
Mon Jan 17 12:07:31 EST 2011


Hi all,

I have set LOCALE="fr_CA.utf8" in rc.conf since I installed Arch some years
ago. Since then, I was using KDE and I could see utf8 characters in the
terminal. I've switched to Xfce 4.6 some weeks ago but now I get "??" in the
terminal whenever I use UTF8 characters.

When I type "locale" locally, I get:
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

But when I connect through ssh (from a KDE machine), I get this:
LANG=fr_CA.utf8
LC_CTYPE="fr_CA.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_CA.utf8"
LC_TIME="fr_CA.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_CA.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_CA.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_CA.utf8"
LC_PAPER="fr_CA.utf8"
LC_NAME="fr_CA.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_CA.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_CA.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_CA.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_CA.utf8"
LC_ALL=

What's wrong here??

terminal 0.4.5-1 (xfce4)

Thanks!

N


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