[SOLVED] Garbled Output in XTerm

rkfb · 12-28-2016, 05:12 PM

Does anyone know how I would correct the output of my weather report in xterm?

I'm guessing it's a language or character encoding problem?

Didier Spaier · 12-28-2016, 05:26 PM

Works here:

Code:

didier[~]$ cat .Xresources 
XTerm*background:#001b33
XTerm*foreground:white
XTerm*faceName:DejaVu
XTerm*faceSize:12
didier[~]$

PS A lot faster and more readable than in Firefox. Thanks for the tip!
PPS I have LANG set to fr_FR.utf8. If I set it to C I get a garbled display too.
PPPS and a proper display with these settings needs at least 125 columns.

rkfb · 12-28-2016, 05:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

Works here:

Code:

didier[~]$ cat .Xresources 
XTerm*background:#001b33
XTerm*foreground:white
XTerm*faceName:DejaVu
XTerm*faceSize:12
didier[~]$

PS A lot faster and more readable than in Firefox. Thanks for the tip!
PPS I have LANG set to fr_FR.utf8. If i set it to C I get a garbled display too.
PPPS and a proper display with these settings needs at least 125 columns.

Thankyou.

I had language set to en_GB ... changed to en_GB.utf8 and all is well.

STDOUBT · 12-28-2016, 06:00 PM

Works properly here. I'm using urxvt-unicode and have set

Code:

# Append any additional kernel parameters:
append=" vt.default_utf8=1"

in /etc/lilo.conf
rkfb, I think you just need to set your language to support UTF-8.
Works fine here in xterm also.
FWIW I have always used

Code:

 weather pdx

to check the forecast. "weather" is part of the EXPECT(1) program and ships with Slackware. As Didier Spaier says, yes, so much better than a web browser with all the ads and crap!

rkfb · 12-28-2016, 06:04 PM

I changed the language setting by editing:

/etc/profile.d/lang.sh

... just for completion