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Re: International Characters



On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:57:09AM -0700, Tom wrote:
> Mutt aside, I've dropped out of X to type this.  I'm in Nano
> and will press F5 to insert a file containing the 1/2 character
> and uppercase-accent-E:
> [begin]
> ½É
> [end]
> 
> When I do the same action from within gnome-terminal in X,
> I see ?? instead of the charcters.  How can I overcome that?
> AFAIK these are upper-ASCII, not UTF, chars.

When you type 'locale', what is the output? It really sounds like you
have LC_CTYPE=C, i.e. ASCII-only.

(That said, I'm not sure about gnome-terminal. I use pterm.)

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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