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#1 2013-07-11 01:06:01

splippity
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unicode symbols not working in my terminal

Im trying to run a bash script that uses special symbols to give the desired affect.

someone suggested:

They are unicode symbols: yout $TERM needs to support them and you also have to have your locale set correctly

Im refering to : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=84386

my locales looks like: en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

I was trying to read up on unicode symbols and such but didnt get very far

I was looking in : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale
and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Font_formats


thanks

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#2 2013-07-11 01:09:05

karol
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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

Are you running this in your tty or some X terminal? Which one?
What's the output of 'localectl' 'cat /etc/vconsole.conf'?

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#3 2013-07-11 01:09:30

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

So you know what information we need, but you didn't provide it?  What is your TERM set to?  Is this in a tty or in an terminal emulator in X, if the latter, which one?

I don't know what that means when you say that's what your locales look like, what command/file did that come from?  The actual output of `locale` or `localectl` would be useful (I prefer the former).

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#4 2013-07-12 22:56:36

splippity
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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

sorry about the long time between posts
thanks.

Im using konsole in kde
I also tried xterm

 localectl
   System Locale: LANG=C
       VC Keymap: n/a
      X11 Layout: n/a


$ cat /etc/vconsole.conf
cat: /etc/vconsole.conf: No such file or directory

 locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=

Last edited by splippity (2013-07-12 22:57:39)

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#5 2013-07-12 22:58:27

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

Switch to a utf8 locale :-)

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#6 2013-07-12 22:59:49

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

Trilby wrote:

What is your TERM set to?  Is this in a tty or in an terminal emulator in X, if the latter, which one?

I don't know what that means when you say that's what your locales look like, what command/file did that come from?

And why did you say

my locales looks like: en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

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#7 2013-07-12 23:06:57

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

@cfr
That's what he uncommented in /etc/locale.gen.

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#8 2013-07-12 23:08:43

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

yes thats what I uncommented and then I generated the locale so what did I do wrong?

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#9 2013-07-12 23:16:07

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

splippity wrote:

yes thats what I uncommented and then I generated the locale so what did I do wrong?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lo … ide_locale

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#10 2013-07-13 00:03:16

splippity
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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

ok I followed those directions by setting it to: LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
will I now be able to have the symbols display properly in konsole?

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#11 2013-07-13 00:06:41

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

splippity wrote:

ok I followed those directions by setting it to: LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
will I now be able to have the symbols display properly in konsole?

Why not test it?

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#12 2013-07-13 00:47:52

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

splippity wrote:

ok I followed those directions by setting it to: LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
will I now be able to have the symbols display properly in konsole?

Sanity test... run "locale -a".  If you get output there that includes en_US.utf8, then you did it right.  If not, you're still missing a step.

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#13 2013-07-17 06:54:26

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

> locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
POSIX


but the bash script still wont show the correct characters.
Was that just a part 1?

thanks

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#14 2013-07-17 07:04:25

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

What's the output of 'locale' and 'localectl'?

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#15 2013-07-17 19:27:27

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

localectl
   System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: n/a
      X11 Layout: n/a

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#16 2013-07-17 19:42:36

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

It may be a font issue then.

Can you post the script you're trying to get to run properly?

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#17 2013-07-17 22:00:07

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=84386

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#18 2013-07-17 22:14:36

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

I can see the unicode symbols properly both in X and in the tty:

┌───┤karol@black:5├─────────────┤├──
└─┤12:07 AM|$├─> locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
┌───┤karol@black:5├─────────────┤├──
└─┤12:07 AM|$├─> localectl
   System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
                  LC_COLLATE=C
                  LC_MESSAGES=C
       VC Keymap: pl
      X11 Layout: n/a
┌───┤karol@black:5├─────────────┤├──
└─┤12:07 AM|$├─> cat /etc/vconsole.conf 
KEYMAP=pl
#FONT=lat2-16
FONT=Lat2-Terminus16
FONT_MAP=8859-2

I use Terminus font in X too.


What's the output of 

echo $TERM

?

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#19 2013-07-17 23:21:17

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

echo $TERM
xterm

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#20 2013-07-17 23:29:18

splippity
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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

when I try cat /etc/vconsole.conf I get no such file exists

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#21 2013-07-17 23:39:09

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

You shouldn't actually need vconsole.conf as long as you are sticking to the defaults.  It is only when you want to change something that that file becomes necessary.  But hey, maybe actually using it might help... I've got no other ideas.

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#22 2013-07-17 23:41:00

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

xterm doesn't support unicode, does it?  Unless it's called as uxterm.

"UNIX is simple and coherent..." - Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" -  Richard Stallman

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#23 2013-07-17 23:42:02

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

Trilby wrote:

xterm doesn't support unicode, does it?  Unless it's called as uxterm.

That's what I thought, but

┌───┤karol@black:6├─────────────┤├──
└─┤01:39 AM|$├─> echo $TERM
xterm

Edit: If I start it as uxterm, it still returns xterm as the $TERM (but htop shows it's 'xterm -class UXTerm -title uxterm -u8', not just 'xterm').

Last edited by karol (2013-07-17 23:44:23)

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#24 2013-07-18 01:11:24

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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

Xterm also supports utf-8 if your system locale is set properly, and the xterm resource 'locale' is set to true:

XTerm*locale: true

With my setup of xterm, the pcf version of Terminus renders differently depending whether you use xft or xlfd naming.  I usually use this text, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/exam … 8-demo.txt, to test font coverage.  Terminus, using either xft or xlfd, is missing some of the diagonal and X-shaped box characters.

With xft, or FreeType, many of the straight line box-drawing glyphs are missing.

$ xterm -fa "Terminus:size=12"

But most of the glyphs do show with xlfd:

$ xterm -fn "-*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*"

I would guess there's an incompatibility with Terminus and FreeType.  That might explain the faults found with Konsole.

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#25 2014-10-03 13:15:54

tek
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Re: unicode symbols not working in my terminal

Sorry to revive this thread, but this problem always anoying me. At last I found the solution, it was installing some fonts and restarting:
pacman -S ttf-freefont ttf-liberation ttf-droid

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