Re: Locales and OpenOffice.

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Vegard Munthe]
> In console I get a bit funky characters, date gives:
> 
> "á??á?­á?¢á?¡ á??á??á?¢á?µ  4 á??á??á??á?²  7:14:28 á?µá??á?­ á?°á??á?µ
> CET 2005 á??/á??"
> 
> My fedora core 3 dist shows the right character (Tigrigna), so I'm
> guessing I'm missing a font or similar. Anyone have ideas?

I guess you need to enable UTF-8 mode in the console.  Perhaps
<URL:http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html> is helpful?  Fedore
uses UTF-8 by default, and that is probably the reason you see the
right characters there.

Try doing the same in 'xterm -u8', to enable utf-8 mode in the xterm.