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neonl

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From: Lisboa

Registered: 2007-12-27

Posts: 26

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Character problem in xfce-terminal

Hello.

I'm using Xfce4 with the en_US.utf8 locale. The question that I'm Portuguese and there are many chars (ex. í ì ã õ, etc) in my folders/file names that aren't shown well in terminal (in Thunar they are ok, though). I don't know if the problem is caused by the CONSOLEFONT variable or if I need other variables in rc.conf.

My rc.conf (the "locale part") is:

LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Lisbon"
KEYMAP="pt-latin1"
CONSOLEFONT="lat0-16"
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

Many thanks in advance.

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Maos

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Registered: 2006-11-09

Posts: 46

Re: Character problem in xfce-terminal

Not much help here but I have same problem but with swedish characters. And the characters look as they should in the consoles, they only look strange in x-terminals for me...
Is it the same for you?

brandemk

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Registered: 2008-01-19

Posts: 11

Re: Character problem in xfce-terminal

The CONSOLEFONT variable in rc.conf controls the Linux console. The Linux console is the thing you get when you boot the system up without X. They should have no effect on any X-terminal application.

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neonl

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From: Lisboa

Registered: 2007-12-27

Posts: 26

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Re: Character problem in xfce-terminal

Not much help here but I have same problem but with swedish characters. And the characters look as they should in the consoles, they only look strange in x-terminals for me...
Is it the same for you?

Nope. They look bad in X terminal apps AND in the console outside X server ...

If somebody can give me a tip I'll much appreciated...

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Karl Marx
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DonnieP

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From: Richmond, VA USA

Registered: 2008-02-09

Posts: 1

Re: Character problem in xfce-terminal

Nope. They look bad in X terminal apps AND in the console outside X server ...

If somebody can give me a tip I'll much appreciated...

Forgive me if you've already solved this, but have have you tried changing your LANG to pt_PT.utf8 instead of en_US.utf8?