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Old 03-13-2006, 10:09 AM   #1
guillaume31
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gnome-terminal and character encoding problem


Hi all,

I have a problem with gnome-terminal and character encoding: it doesn't show special french characters even if LANG is set to "en_US.iso-8859-15".

Note that these characters show up perfectly in regular xterms.

Running a new gnome-terminal (as well as other applications) provides some warnings:

Code:
macbeth:~> gnome-terminal
 (gnome-terminal:2170): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported   by Xlib
 (gnome-terminal:2170): Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale  modifiers
or:

Code:
macbeth:~> xterm
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Code:
macbeth:~> xmms

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Code:
macbeth:~> acroread

(acroread:2360): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib

(acroread:2360): Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers
m
A X application such xclock doesn't show these warnings...

My locale is:

Code:
macbeth:~> locale
LANG=en_US.iso-8859-15
LC_CTYPE="en_US.iso-8859-15"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.iso-8859-15"
LC_TIME="en_US.iso-8859-15"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.iso-8859-15"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.iso-8859-15"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.iso-8859-15"
LC_PAPER="en_US.iso-8859-15"
LC_NAME="en_US.iso-8859-15"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.iso-8859-15"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.iso-8859-15"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.iso-8859-15"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.iso-8859-15"
LC_ALL=
I tried to search the web on this problem, it appears that others have similar problem with gnome-terminal, but I didn't find a convincing solution.

Moreover, if I set by hand in Terminal menu of gnome-terminal, the Character encoding to "Western (iso-8859-15)" instead of default "Current locale (UTF-8)", it work fine, but I found no way to set this once for all. No way as well to remove this "Current locale".

Any idea would be welcome. I'm becoming crazy with this stuff!

Guillaume
 
  


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