On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:15:27AM +0100, Stewart Jeacocke wrote: > retitle 257709 Silently fails to paste chars if locale doesn't support them. > thanks > > > If I try to cut and paste a piece of text from mozilla which contains, > > e.g., é, the paste silently fails. > > > > Pasting the same text into, e.g., gedit, succeeds. > > > > The problem is that you are not using a UTF-8 (Unicode) system locale. > Run > > # pkg-reconfigure locales > > and select a Unicode locale (eg en_GB.UTF-8) as the default system > locale. Log out of GNOME and log back in. Launch gnome-terminal and > check that the menu item Terminal -> Set Character Encoding -> Current > Locale shows the UTF-8 locale. If so you should be able to paste any > Unicode character that you like into gnome terminal. > > Of course it would be nice if gnome-terminal warned you when you tried > to paste a string containing an unsupported character into the terminal > rather that just silently failing the paste. This probably deserves to > be forwarded upstream.
Yeah, OK, thanks, that seems to explain the symptoms. As a practical problem, it seems that most of the email and newgroups I see are using iso-8859-1, so that's the only thing that seems to work as a default encoding for my terminal. --b. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
