On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:28:10PM +0100, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Gnome is in english but german characters display correct and I can > enter them so this is no real problem (but a solution would be nice > nevertheless).
GNOME certainly shouldn't be in English, it has lots of German translations. > A real problem is the gnome-terminal. I can't enter german characters > and they are displayed as '?'. > In the menubar Terminal -> Character Coding -> Current Locale is set to > ANSI_X3.4-1968. When I change that manually to ISO-8859-15 characters > display correct but I still can't enter them. ANSI-blahblah is the official name of ASCII. This means g-t is falling back to "C" locale. Are you sure there isn't anything on stderr, such as "locale not supported by C library"? The symptoms sound like setlocale() fails. Havoc
