Re: Openinig text files with international characters in nautilus

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

José Alburquerque wrote:
> I have an interesting little question.  I have some text files in a 
> folder with international character filenames (ie. the file names 
> contain characters such as é,ñ,¡, etc.).  I try to open these files with 
> vim from nautilus.  However, it seems that because of the "unusual" 
> characters, vim cannot open the files.
>
> If I issue the command (gvim "<filename>.txt") from a gnome-terminal 
> (running bash), vim opens it with no problems and displays the name of 
> the file (with the international characters) fine at the bottom.  (BTW,  
> when I open from nautilus vim shows the filename but the international 
> characters are translated to funny characters).
>
> I've been able to find that in the gnome-terminal the shell variable 
> "LANG" is defined to have the value "en_US.UTF-8".  If I unset this 
> variable and attempt to vi, the filename displayed at the bottom of the 
> vim window is again sort of "garbled" as occurs in nautilus.
>
> This sort of leads me to believe that the LANG variable is not defined 
> when gnome starts up but is defined in the terminal (I guess from my 
> .bashrc).
>
> Would anyone know how I might get nautilus to open these files 
> correctly?  I'm running GNOME 2.14 and my system starts in X mode 
> running gdm.
>
>   
I just found out that the "LANG" variable has nothing to do with this.  
I issued the command 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8 nautilus --no-desktop' which 
brings up a nautilus window that exhibits the same behavior.  Anyone has 
any ideas?  Much appreciate it.

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Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque