Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.10.1-1 Severity: important GNOME Terminal's character encoding handling is broken.
For a terminal, there are 2 possibilities: 1. The terminal gets the character encoding from the current locale. 2. The terminal forces the character encoding to some settings, but needs to change LC_CTYPE accordingly (or let the user do this). GNOME Terminal does neither. I have UTF-8 locales, but GNOME Terminal sets the character encoding to ANSIX3.4-1968[*] (ASCII) and lets LC_CTYPE unchanged (en_US.UTF-8 in my case), yielding garbage with some applications (e.g. Mutt). [*] The Terminal → Set Character Encoding menu has the following selected by default: Current Locale (ANSIX3.4-1968) I don't know what "Current Locale" means since this is obviously wrong. The manual says "The default character encoding is usually UTF-8." but this is not what happens here. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on: ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.18.0-1 ii gconf-service 3.2.6-1 ii gnome-terminal-data 3.10.1-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.8.2-2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.10.0-2 ii libc6 2.17-97 ii libdconf1 0.18.0-1 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.36.4-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.8.6-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.0-1 ii libuuid1 2.20.1-5.5 ii libvte-2.90-9 1:0.34.9-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-1 Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends: ii dbus-x11 1.6.18-2 ii gvfs 1.16.3-1+b2 ii yelp 3.10.1-1 gnome-terminal suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
