Gnome-terminal is unfortunately known to have troubles with non-UTF-8
locales, see e.g. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732127.
In your case, however, I suspect that you're doing something wrong with
your installation (because you also seem to aim for UTF-8). It's weird
to me that
Egmont's email gave me enough clues to figure out that I had incorrectly
installed my custom locale; the charmap was ANSI_X3.4-1968 rather than
UTF-8. (I'll guess that when I used the Python script to install my
custom locale, the script called localedef without the -f UTF-8 option
to set the
Public bug reported:
Yesterday I upgraded to Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, and I couldn't
launch a gnome-terminal. Shift+Ctrl+T didn't seem to do anything, nor
did typing terminal into the dash. Fortunately, xterm still worked.
Typing ps aux (into an xterm terminal) revealed a few instances marked
