Re: languages

[Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net>]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 08:58:49PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
> On 18-09-2017, at 20h 47'28", Pol Hallen wrote about "languages"
> > Hello all :-)
> > 
> > studying russian language I've some files with cyrillic file name: using
> > caja (mate file manager) I see correct file name, but using the shell I see:
> > 
> > ?????????????????? - ?????????????? ????????????.txt
> > 
> > How can I see the correct file names?
> > 
> > thanks for help :)
> > 
> > Pol
> 
> 
> What terminal do you use. Use one that is unicode aware, like uxterm.

Some else's recent suggestion to try xfce4-terminal had me switch in
the last 4 days from uxterm to xfce4-terminal:

 - can configure it visually to almost the same as "u/xterm -lc"
 - supports fixed fonts (of course) if fixed fonts are enabled for
   true type apps
 - it has fall-back to AA true type fonts for missing glyphs (bonus!)

It's a comfortable terminal...


> Also, what locales do you use? Something unicode aware would be
> better...
> 
> When you copy and paste those question marks (into a text editor) are
> they really question marks or they change back into Cyrillic letters?
> If yes, then your terminal doesn't have the Cyrillic letters set.
> 
> Ionel
>