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On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote: |
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> On 07/12/2010 11:51 AM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> I have been fiddling on and off for a few months now trying to get |
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>> Unicode font display in Terminal, which per the Gentoo Unicode docs as |
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>> well as its own, supports UTF-8 character sets. However, special |
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>> characters are not displayed. The font in use is DejaVu Sans Mono, |
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>> which ought to support simple accented characters and other Unicode |
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>> glyphs. The results of `locale` are as follows: |
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>> toad@saya ~ $ locale |
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>> LANG=en_US.utf8 |
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>> LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" |
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>> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8" |
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>> LC_TIME="en_US.utf8" |
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>> LC_COLLATE=C |
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>> LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8" |
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>> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" |
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>> LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8" |
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>> LC_NAME="en_US.utf8" |
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>> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8" |
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>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8" |
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>> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8" |
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>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8" |
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>> LC_ALL= |
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>> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? |
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>> Thanks! |
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> Try en_US.UTF-8 instead. |
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That did it. Thanks! |
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I am confused, though. Why am I setting LANG, etc, to "en_US.UTF-8" |
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when locale -a says "en_US.utf8"? |
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For now I am happy that it works. Thanks again. |
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-Andy |
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