On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: > On my system, TERM=rxvt-unicode but COLORTERM=rxvt-xpm. I think this might > be why I cannot display UTF-8 characters in virtual terminals and alpine. > (I've asked on the Slackware mail list earlier this week but have not had > any response.)
Well! Turns out the issue was not with COLORTERM, but with setting the locale. I would 'export LANG=en_US.UTF8' at the command line and in ~/.bash_profile (and ~/.bashrc, too, out of desparation) but it made no difference. Each time I logged in LANG (and other environment variables other than LC_COLLATION) returned to 'en_US'. A bit more Web searching lead me to the Slackware portion of linuxquestions.org and that taught me there's /etc/profile.d/lang.sh. I uncommented 'LANG=en_US.UTF8' there, logged out and then back in. Now the UTF-8 test file properly displays and locale shows LANG=en_US.UTF8. Still don't know where COLORTERM is set, but that has nothing to do with how the locale is set. Yowzer! Whew! Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
