Re: [Usability] setting a default character encoding in gnome-terminal

[Frédéric RUAUDEL <ruaudel embl-grenoble fr>]

Hi stefan,

  I don't know if it is a vendor specific feature, but my gnome 
terminal V2.2.1 on my RH8.0 Ximian Desktop 2 have the option shown on 
the screenshot you submit. It is in the menu Terminal->Character Coding.

Just to mention it.

Regards,

Fred
--
In a world without fences, who need Gates ?

Stefan Sperling wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to convince gnome-terminal to use the iso-8859-1 character 
> encoding by default. German is my native language. But I am also very 
> fluent in english, so me and my computer talk english all day. Still, 
> german umlauts and zs's tend to appear on my screen once in a while.
>
> Gnome-terminal notoriously sets its default character encoding to
> the current locale (which on my slackware 9.0 system is ANSI_X3.4-1968
> according to gnome-terminal.) This does not display umlauts correctly.
> I tried setting $LC_CLANG to "iso-8859-1" but that makes no difference.
>
> Setting $LANG is not an option since I do not want my entire system to 
> speak german. I just want it to always be able to display german text 
> properly without forcing me to grab the mouse and go to the character 
> encoding menu everytime I launch a new gnome-terminal (and even the 
> launch itself already involves the mouse... but my being annoyed about 
> gnome 2.2.0 not knowing about keyboard shortcuts to start applications 
> is another issue...)
> Apart from gnome-terminal there is no other application having 
> problems with umlauts that comes to my mind now...
>
> Searching the internet for assistance, I found a post by Havoc 
> Pennington <hp redhat com> (apparently the copyright holder of 
> gnome-terminal) from July 14th 2002 to this very list. Here is a quote 
> (the link to the png image is still valid as I'm typing):
>
>
>   Here is a possible gnome-terminal UI which is similar 
> to              Mozilla's but a bit less complex (no autodetect, and no
>   More submenu):
>
>     http://pobox.com/~hp/terminal-encoding.png
>
>   The "Add or Remove" dialog is used to change what's in the menu, since
>   otherwise the menu would be huge, and too annoying to use 
> (most          users who use this feature will be frequently toggling 
> between acouple    of encodings).
>   In addition to what's visible in the screenshot, there would 
> be           a per-profile "default encoding" setting, used for new 
> windows.
>
>
>
> Unfortunately the "default encoding" setting is not in any of my 
> gnome-terminal's profile menus.... is this a pending feature that has 
> not yet been added (I am using gnome-terminal 2.2.1) or has it 
> deliberately been left out?
>
> Is there another way to solve this problem?
> Why does gnome-terminal ignore my LC_CTYPE environment variable?
> And why is the terminal encodings menu only partially customizable?
> That is: Why can't I simply remove the two encodings "Current Locale" 
> and "Unicode" from the encodings menu if I don't need them, leaving 
> the menu with the single entry "ISO-8859-1"?
>
> To me this begins to smell a little like a violation of the 
> traditional UNIX principle of least surprise.... :(
> May be the gnome-terminal authors need to take a rest from hacking to 
> read Eric S. Raymond's new book ;) 
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/
> (Now, don't get me wrong, gnome-terminal really IS my favourite 
> terminal emulator because of all its numerous other nifty features, eg 
> brilliant curses integration, multiple sessions in a single window, a 
> very nice default font and light speed - only transparent background 
> is a bit slow...)
>
> Or maybe I have just not tried hard enough? Or I need the very latest
> version? Any response is welcome.
>
> Regards
> stefan
>
>
>
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