Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
On 07/12/2010 11:51 AM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: Hi all, I have been fiddling on and off for a few months now trying to get Unicode font display in Terminal, which per the Gentoo Unicode docs as well as its own, supports UTF-8 character sets. However, special characters are not displayed. The font in use is DejaVu Sans Mono, which ought to support simple accented characters and other Unicode glyphs. The results of `locale` are as follows: t...@saya ~ $ locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8 LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=en_US.utf8 LC_ADDRESS=en_US.utf8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.utf8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.utf8 LC_ALL= Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! Try en_US.UTF-8 instead.
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote: On 07/12/2010 11:51 AM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: Hi all, I have been fiddling on and off for a few months now trying to get Unicode font display in Terminal, which per the Gentoo Unicode docs as well as its own, supports UTF-8 character sets. However, special characters are not displayed. The font in use is DejaVu Sans Mono, which ought to support simple accented characters and other Unicode glyphs. The results of `locale` are as follows: t...@saya ~ $ locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8 LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=en_US.utf8 LC_ADDRESS=en_US.utf8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.utf8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.utf8 LC_ALL= Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! Try en_US.UTF-8 instead. That did it. Thanks! I am confused, though. Why am I setting LANG, etc, to en_US.UTF-8 when locale -a says en_US.utf8? For now I am happy that it works. Thanks again. -Andy
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
On 07/12/2010 01:38 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote: Try en_US.UTF-8 instead. That did it. Thanks! I am confused, though. Why am I setting LANG, etc, to en_US.UTF-8 when locale -a says en_US.utf8? That's probably what the kernel thinks. If you look at the NLS stuff in the kernel, it uses utf8 instead of the usual UTF-8 syntax, which, according to the never-incorrect archives on Wikipedia, states is the official name. I might be all wet, but that's the only place that I'm familiar with that uses utf8. -- Bill Lost a character set, has he? How embarassing. How embarassing.
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
On Monday 12 July 2010 21:58:35 Bill Longman wrote: On 07/12/2010 01:38 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote: Try en_US.UTF-8 instead. That did it. Thanks! I am confused, though. Why am I setting LANG, etc, to en_US.UTF-8 when locale -a says en_US.utf8? Because the /etc/logale.gen file tells us: # Where locale is a locale located in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ and # where charmap is a charmap located in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/. and in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/ you will find: UTF-8.gz The next comment says: # For the default list of supported combinations, see the file: # /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED which shows: en_US.UTF-8 That's probably what the kernel thinks. If you look at the NLS stuff in the kernel, it uses utf8 instead of the usual UTF-8 syntax, which, according to the never-incorrect archives on Wikipedia, states is the official name. I might be all wet, but that's the only place that I'm familiar with that uses utf8. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
On 07/12/2010 01:38 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: For now I am happy that it works. Thanks again. -Andy For what it's worth, Andy, here's my setup: /etc/locale.gen has: en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 el_GR.UTF-8 UTF-8 el_GR ISO-8859-7 and in /etc/env.d/02locale I have: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 And it all just works. I have the default codepage/NLS set to utf8 in my kernels, too, but I don't create files with Greek names. Not yet, anyway, and I really don't plan on it. Switching keyboard layouts is hard enough in the editor. Ever try to run λσ -λ in bash?
