Re: gnome-terminal and multiple locales?

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>]

On 5/27/07, Grant McLean <grant mclean net nz> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've had a question about locale support from a user of my SSHMenu
> applet.  It turns out it's really a question about gnome-terminal's
> locale handling.
>
> Normally, this user works in the pl_PL.UTF-8 locale.  Occasionally, he
> needs to connect to an older server that doesn't support UTF-8 locales
> so he needs to use an ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) locale instead.  Here's an
> example shell script:
>
>   #!/bin/sh
>   LC_ALL=pl_PL gnome-terminal
>
> By placing that shell script on the desktop and double-clicking it, the
> user can get a terminal window that supports Latin-2.  He can now SSH to
> the server and everything works as expected, except ...
>
> If a second gnome-terminal window is started by selecting "Terminal"
> from the main GNOME menu (ie: not by running the script above), the new
> terminal window also uses the Latin-2 locale.
>
> It seems that because gnome-terminal uses one process to manage all
> terminal windows, the locale of the first window launched will 'win' and
> that locale will be applied to all other windows.
>
> Is there any way to work around this behaviour?  It would seem desirable
> for example to be able to specify a locale in a terminal profile.
>
> Any suggestions or workarounds?

you might try the --diable-factory commandline option as a workaround

--
jonner