Re: Eterm, gnome-terminal, UTF-8 woes
Shot <shot@hot.pl> wrote:
> I'm trying to migrate my desktop from pl_PL (ISO-8859-2 encoding) to
> pl_PL.UTF-8 (a Unicode flavor). Unfortunately, Eterm doesn't seem to
> like UTF-8 at all - I tried --mencoding iso-10646, I tried
> --mencoding utf-8, the fonts seem to be set to ...-iso10646-1 in the
> multichar section of the preferences file, but Eterm still doesn't like
> to display UTF-8-encoded files properly.
that sounds right. Is Eterm maintained, still?
> The other possible option for me is to leave Eterm altogether and
> standarize on gnome-terminal. Unfortunately, I still have some programs
> which must run under pl_PL (mc, ekg), so I wrap them in scripts that
> export pl_PL locale. Is there any way to change the "Terminal |
> Character encoding" gnome-terminal setting from the commandline?
xterm (as uxterm) does UTF-8.
I _see_ about as many bug reports for gnome-terminal as for xterm.
(but I _look_ for bug reports for the latter ;-)
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Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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