[arch-general] Character encoding on new install

[Tim Stella]

On 02/25/12 at 06:57pm, Mantas M. wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 07:10:51AM -0800, Tim Stella wrote:
> > I have locales set correctly in /etc/locale.gen:
> > 
> > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> > en_US ISO-8859-1
> 
> Have these locales been generated? After editing locale.gen, you have to run `locale-gen` as root.
> 
> > and according to 'locale', all my variables seem to be in order:
> > 
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > [...]
> 
> Where are these locale variables set?
> 
> If they are in your `.bashrc`, it could be that your terminals do not have the proper variables -- for example,
> 
>     awesome            LANG=""
>     └── xterm          LANG=""              - expects ISO-8859-1
>         └── bash       LANG="en_US.UTF-8"   - emits UTF-8
> 	    └── mc     LANG="en_US.UTF-8"   - emits UTF-8
> 
> -- causing the terminal to expect a different charset than the one `mc` uses.
> 
> You can check using ` tr "\0" "\n" < /proc/$PPID/environ ` in a new terminal (where $PPID should expand to the PID of xterm/sakura/whatever).
> 
> -- 
> Mantas M. <grawity at gmail.com>


Thank you!

After checking the environs of the different processes, it seems all of them had
LANG= -- so a quick reboot fixed it. I guess after I generated the locales, I
needed to relog at least (but did a restart just to be sure.)

All working now! Thank you.

Tim