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From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:59:11
Message-Id: 4C3B81FB.6080807@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal by Andy Wilkinson
1 On 07/12/2010 01:38 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote:
2 > On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote:
3 >> Try en_US.UTF-8 instead.
4 >>
5 >>
6 >>
7 > That did it. Thanks!
8 >
9 > I am confused, though. Why am I setting LANG, etc, to "en_US.UTF-8"
10 > when locale -a says "en_US.utf8"?
11
12 That's probably what the kernel thinks. If you look at the NLS stuff in
13 the kernel, it uses "utf8" instead of the usual "UTF-8" syntax, which,
14 according to the never-incorrect archives on Wikipedia, states is the
15 official name.
16
17 I might be all wet, but that's the only place that I'm familiar with
18 that uses "utf8".
19
20 --
21 Bill
22 "Lost a character set, has he? How embarassing. How embarassing."

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