On Jan 21, 2008 1:32 AM, Jens Petersen petersen@redhat.com wrote:
Hi Natxo Asenjo,
since fedora8 I have an awkward problem. In an xterm or console session all diacritic characters appear like this: http://www.asenjo.nl/Screenshot-xterm.png that is, they are replaced by blanks. In other applications like openoffice this is not a problem.
Sorry the screenshot doesn't help me much since I can't read Spanish - so I am not sure where the blanks are appearing...
ok, fair enough:
I try to see words like (now I copy paste from openoffice):
Iňaki, espaňol, camión
and what I see is:
I aki, espa ol, cami n
it is awkward because I am used to using console programs like mutt for my email, so this is something that I come across really often.
LC_CTYPE="en_US" LC_NUMERIC="en_US" LC_TIME="en_US" LC_COLLATE="en_US" LC_MONETARY="en_US" LC_MESSAGES="en_US" LC_PAPER="en_US" LC_NAME="en_US" LC_ADDRESS="en_US" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
Are you intentionally not using UTF-8?
not that I know of. I use the tool in system->administration-> language and choose English (USA); I do not see English utf-8 in there to change the locale; could you tell me where I can do that?
I have changed the system locale to Spanish (Spain) but it does not help (I rebooted the system for the changes to take place).
Ok.
Does anybody know where I could fix this? This has worked perfectly in fedora6 and fedora7, so I am a bit puzzled.
So is it just a display problem in terms?
yes, it is just a display problem in terminals (but an annoying one for me ;-) ).