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Re: Accented chars are replaced by ?'s



on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:07:32AM +0100, franck routier (f.routier@wanadoo.fr) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use unstable (latest upgrade) in my box and have the following problem :
> 
> french accented characters are replaced by ? in some places, or just make
> the rest of the text be ignored :
> 
> 1) é à è, ... are replaced by ? in gnome-terminals
> 2) titles are troncated in window titles under sawfish/gnome (for example,
> control center should show up as 'Centre de contrôle' and gives 'Centre de
> contr')
> 
> On the other hand, everything is fine in gnome menus, in gtk buttons, ...
> 
> I have LANG=fr_FR set in /etc/environment.

Have you generated your locales?  Not really clear on where/how this
happens, but it's part of the locale configuration somewhere.

OK, try /usr/sbin/locale-gen, and check contents of /etc/locale.alias and
/etc/locale.gen.

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