Re: Terminal issues in fresh install
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2008-01-01 20:57 +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>> Note that just changing the environment variable inside the terminal
>> won't help -- it's the terminal that needs to interpret those sequences,
>> so you have to run *the terminal itself* in the new locale.
> Some terminals also allow to change the encoding at runtime, e.g. KDE
> konsole or putty.
xterm does that as well (control sequences, or menu entry)
It doesn't adjust the fonts though, so it's possible to start it with
an ISO-8859-1 font and switch to UTF-8, making it recognize but not
display various characters. That's the point of the uxterm script -
to make it simple.
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