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c008

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Registered: 2010-04-17

Posts: 20

A question about locales and a problem

Hi,
In /etc/rc.conf I have set the default locale to sv_SE for Swedish and the language is working and I have also uncommented that in /etc/locales.gen
But in the text console some of the Swedish letters aren't shown proprely like å ä and ö. Any suggestions? They are shown as ?. Any tips?
Many thanks!

Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 1,053

Re: A question about locales and a problem

Some terminals do not support UTF-8 encoding.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Loc … characters

it might be worth your while to look into a different terminal,

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c008

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Registered: 2010-04-17

Posts: 20

Re: A question about locales and a problem

But shouldn't the console support that?
If not, how to change terminal?
Many thanks!

Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 1,053

Re: A question about locales and a problem

I misread your previous post, I thought you meant terminal emulator (xterm, rxvt, etc.) when it seems you meant the tty.

Try putting

export LC_ALL=sv_SE.utf8

in your bashrc, If I'm not mistaken this should take care of the problem.

Last edited by Cyrusm (2010-05-15 15:02:46)

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