Re: gnome-terminal with default character coding

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 07:30:22AM +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: 
> I'm not successful:
> 
> using "LANG=de_DE gnome-terminal --disable-factory" starts a
> gnome-terminal, but it has problems to accepts special chars
> like German umlauts: typing chars as "ü" for example produces
> messages like
> 
>         ** (gnome-terminal:20073): WARNING **: Error (Invalid or in-
>         complete multibyte or wide character) converting data for
>         child, dropping,
> 
> but no "ü" char.
> 
> On the other hand, I have no problem with such chars when using
> "Terminal->Character Coding->Unicode (UTF-8)" in the gnome-terminal menu.
> What I'm doing wrong?

First, I'd explicitly specify LANG=de_DE.ISO88591 ; the Latin-1 should
be implicit but may as well be sure.

Not sure what's wrong there, what version of vte do you have?
Try upgrading to latest 0.10.x perhaps.

Havoc