Gentoo Forums
Gentoo Forums
Gentoo Forums
Quick Search: in
Foreign characters not displayed properly in terminal
View unanswered posts
View posts from last 24 hours

 
Reply to topic    Gentoo Forums Forum Index Other Things Gentoo
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
evoweiss
Veteran
Veteran


Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Posts: 1678
Location: Edinburgh, UK

PostPosted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:53 pm    Post subject: Foreign characters not displayed properly in terminal Reply with quote

Hi all,

I'm using konsole as my terminal (I have also tried this with xterm) and noticed something peculiar. If there is a foreign character in the text, e.g., some accented letter, it will display as a highlighted <E8> when viewed with 'less'. It looks fine using more, pico, or nano. Any ideas?

Best,

Alex
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
tukachinchila
Apprentice
Apprentice


Joined: 11 Mar 2005
Posts: 274
Location: Oregon

PostPosted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've run into the same thing from time-to-time with "man" (which makes use of "less"), but it happens so infrequently that I've never bothered looking into it.

You could try using UTF-8 by following this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml Then (if it's still necessary) setup "less" to use the UTF-8 character set by setting LESSCHARSET=utf-8 and see if that helps.
See "man less" for better help setting up UTF-8.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
rofro
Apprentice
Apprentice


Joined: 21 Jun 2004
Posts: 234
Location: Piaseczno, Poland

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Similar topic https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2733363.html#2733363
_________________
Linux #358594
gentoo bug comment 175808#c26
You either must have patience or contribute to open source. There is only one guaranteed way to have open source do what you want it to do, and that's write it yourself.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Gentoo Forums Forum Index Other Things Gentoo All times are GMT
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum