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#1 2008-03-03 18:33:58

finferflu
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[SOLVED] Displaying "à è ì ò ù" in gnome-terminal.

Up to a couple of days ago I could display those fonts just fine in gnome-terminal, but now all I can see when I enter them is question marks.
Is there anything I have to do to get them back? It's quite vital for me, since I use them in my first language.

Thanks for your time smile

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#2 2008-03-03 23:01:37

berbae
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Re: [SOLVED] Displaying "à è ì ò ù" in gnome-terminal.

Hello
When you say a "gnome-terminal" are you speaking about a virtual terminal or a xterm console ?

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#3 2008-03-04 07:55:18

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Re: [SOLVED] Displaying "à è ì ò ù" in gnome-terminal.

Hi,
gnome-terminal is the name of the actual terminal emulator, like xterm, aterm, rxvt.


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#4 2008-03-04 09:41:51

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Re: [SOLVED] Displaying "à è ì ò ù" in gnome-terminal.

Hi,

I had issues with special chars like äöü after one of last updates too.

Maybe your problem is related, I solved it with the help of this thread:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44311

Good luck!

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#5 2008-03-04 10:06:16

finferflu
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Re: [SOLVED] Displaying "à è ì ò ù" in gnome-terminal.

Thanks for the link, but my xorg-server version is 1.4.0.90-6, rather than 1.4.0.90-7. So I haven't got that file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-xkeyboard.fdi.
Very odd.

Edit
Also, I only have that font problem in the terminal, I can type those characters just fine within other applications.

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#6 2008-03-04 10:15:45

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Re: [SOLVED] Displaying "à è ì ò ù" in gnome-terminal.

Got it!!
It was not the upgrade, it was because I had issues with man pages, and I was suggested to add the following line to my .bashrc:

export LC_ALL="C"

That fixed the man pages, but eventually messed up my character encoding. I have found an alternative fix for the man pages, using most as wrapper. After removing that line from my .bashrc everything is fine again. Thanks for your help anyway smile


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#7 2008-03-04 10:46:26

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Re: [SOLVED] Displaying "à è ì ò ù" in gnome-terminal.

finferflu wrote:

That fixed the man pages, but eventually messed up my character encoding. I have found an alternative fix for the man pages, using most as wrapper. After removing that line from my .bashrc everything is fine again. Thanks for your help anyway smile

What about merging /etc/profile.pacnew so that LESSCHARSET is no longer set?
Or checking /etc/man.conf.pacnew so that the -Tlatin1 groff arguments are removed.
Or if you had problems only in console, and not in X terminals, then you need to use a correct font.

Anyway, I am still using less here and it works perfectly.


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#8 2008-03-04 11:00:03

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Re: [SOLVED] Displaying "à è ì ò ù" in gnome-terminal.

I did merge /etc/profile, but I did that only after changing my .bashrc, so the changes didn't affect my user (dumb enough huh?). I had problems also in X terminals, which includes gnome-terminal, but I'm fine with most, as it gives me nice colourised man pages smile


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#9 2008-03-04 11:05:50

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Re: [SOLVED] Displaying "à è ì ò ù" in gnome-terminal.

Well I have colors using less too.
See the end of that section :
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pos … ed_manpage


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#10 2008-03-04 11:10:36

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Re: [SOLVED] Displaying "à è ì ò ù" in gnome-terminal.

Ok ok, let's say I have colourised man pages with *less* effort big_smile big_smile big_smile


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