Accented characters are now shown correctly on Thunar and on Terminal

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it> wrote:
>> I am using XFCE on F18. Unfortunately, the accented characters in the
>> file names are not shown correctly on Thunar, as well as on Terminal.
>> Is there some workaround?
>
> Open a terminal and cd to a writeable directory of your choice (which you
> can access with Thunar).
>
> Reproduce these commands and see if your results are different:
>
>
> $ perl -e 'print "\xe2\x82\xac\n"'
> €
>
> (this is a UTF8 euro sign printed in the terminal)
>
>
> $ perl -e 'print "\xe2\x82\xac\n"'|wc -m
> 2
>
> (this is confirmation that the system knows it's a euro and a linefeed)
>
>
> $ perl -e 'print "touch \xe2\x82\xac\n"'|sh
>
> (this is to create a file with a euro name, now check what is shown in Thunar)
>
>
> Let me know what you get.


Thanks, Roberto. I get everything correct, likewise what you get. The
problem occurs with directories that I brought in from previous Fedora
installations. For example, I get the following in Thunar:

Estat�stica (invalid encoding)

Paul