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After upgrading yesterday, I see that, on the console, the German Umlaute ä,ü,ö as well as ß are not printed anymore in the output but replaced by some strange symbols (while I'm still able to type them).
Also the delimiters of tmux windows have turned into some special symbols.
On X11, everything seems allright though.
I guess, this is related to the changes around rc.conf, but I don't know in what way.
Last edited by 4on6 (2012-08-07 18:24:13)
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You can still use your old rc.conf.
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You can still use your old rc.conf.
Ok, I will move rc.conf.pacnew to ~/junk before shutting down next time to see if the strange symbols still appear after booting again.
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It could be related to DAEMON_LOCALE : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=145829
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It could be related to DAEMON_LOCALE : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=145829
In my old rc.conf I find:
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
so it might well be the reason, have to try it out when rebooting.
Where would this be configured in the new config files?
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This issue is likely not related to the config file change. We simply have an issue with DAEMON_LOCALE. We have been trying out different ways of handling it and every time a new bug appears. I'll likely have to revamp the whole thing for the next release. To get utf-8 console, set an utf-8 locale and set DAEMON_LOCALE=yes. This means that also your bootmessages will be in your locale (which is the other issue we have been struggling with).
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This issue is likely not related to the config file change. We simply have an issue with DAEMON_LOCALE. We have been trying out different ways of handling it and every time a new bug appears. I'll likely have to revamp the whole thing for the next release.
Ok, since this is (at least for me) not really a critical issue, I could just leave my settings and wait for the next release to get the former behaviour again - right?
So I will mark this thread a solved - thanks for the help.
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I had the same problem (with Greek letters).
Here is my workaround:
~/.bash_profile (i use bash)
[[ -x /usr/bin/unicode_start && $(tty) = /dev/tty? ]] && unicode_start
That way, every time i load a new terminal console (not an X one) unicode characters appear as they should be.
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@Thanoulis
Nice tip - thanks!
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Thanoulis, what font do you use for console? I have a lot of files with polytonic letters (eg. Ἡ μουσική μου) and those characters don't show.
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I don't use polytonic. After all, modern Greek language is monotonic.
My font is ter-v16b (community/terminus-font).
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I had the same problem and solved it by commenting "DEAMON_LOCALE=no" in rc.conf. However it is not clear for me what was the source of the problem. I`m noob
Last edited by RealGecko (2012-08-12 11:06:19)
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[deleted - misunderstanding]
Last edited by 4on6 (2012-08-22 22:37:23)
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