Re: gnome-terminal with default character coding

[Joachim Backes <backes rhrk uni-kl de>]

On 19-May-2003 Havoc Pennington wrote:
>  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

Hi, Havoc,

I'm running RedHat 9 (vte has version vte-0.10.25-1). But now, using

        LANG=de_DE.ISO88591 gnome-terminal --disable-factory

produces exactly the same results as above (if typing umlauts):

        ** (gnome-terminal:24532): WARNING **: Error (Invalid or
        incomplete multibyte or wide character) converting data for child, dropping.

Regards

Joachim Backes

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