Hi, On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:00:30AM +0200, Nicolas Évrard wrote:I notice that if I start urxvt from an xterm window then the UTF-8 characters display properly. I am a bit puzzled about the cause of the bug.I used to encounter this quite a bit on FreeBSD and found it to be an instance of the following FAQ in urxvt(7). Could you please confirm that it is not so in your case? | Unicode does not seem to work? | | If you encounter strange problems like typing an accented character but | getting two unrelated other characters or similar, or if program output | is subtly garbled, then you should check your locale settings. | | Rxvt-unicode must be started with the same "LC_CTYPE" setting as the | programs running in it. Often rxvt-unicode is started in the "C" | locale, while the login script running within the rxvt-unicode window | changes the locale to something else, e.g. "en_GB.UTF-8". Needless to | say, this is not going to work, and is the most common cause for | problems.
Good catch : I changed my .xsessionrc to add
export LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8
and now everything works fine.
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