On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:13:51AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:57:09AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > Mutt aside, I've dropped out of X to type this. I'm in Nano > > and will press F5 to insert a file containing the 1/2 character > > and uppercase-accent-E: > > [begin] > > �� > > [end] > > > > When I do the same action from within gnome-terminal in X, > > I see ?? instead of the charcters. How can I overcome that? > > AFAIK these are upper-ASCII, not UTF, chars. > > When you type 'locale', what is the output? It really sounds like you > have LC_CTYPE=C, i.e. ASCII-only. > > (That said, I'm not sure about gnome-terminal. I use pterm.) >
Mystery solved. It said blah="POSIX" for everything. I guess when I configured locales I forgot to set the default locale to en_US; strange, I'd learned some time ago I needed to set that. Anyway, thanks for the info, I think the problem is crisply resolved now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
