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fidel
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 Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:54 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Character encoding messed up after update |
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After I updated with the character encoding of the system is totally messed up. After logging in on console, whenever I type a or some multibyte character(s), such as | Code: | | fidel@fidelski ~ $ äöüèà |
etc., I am able to delete as double as much characters than that got written - in the above case i could delete (just by hitting backspace) up to:
and so on.
When I cat a file in gnome-terminal, to which file -i says, it would be in a utf-8 encoding, messy characters show up, instead of umlauts I get unreadable garbage. When I enter vim from gnome and try to write umlauts, I get garbage, like ├ñ. When I enter vim outside gnome, I can write the umlauts but they take the place of two characters, after hitting an ä the cursors stands one position behind the ä.
No idea what causes this, I just got LANG=de_CH.UTF-8 and LC_COLLATE=C:
| Code: | $ locale
LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_CH.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_CH.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_CH.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="de_CH.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_CH.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_CH.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_CH.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_CH.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_CH.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_CH.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_CH.UTF-8"
LC_ALL= |
This should be ok:
| Code: | $ locale -a
C
POSIX
de_CH
de_CH.ibm850
de_CH.iso88591
de_CH.utf8
de_DE
de_DE.iso88591
de_DE.iso885915@euro
de_DE@euro
deutsch
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
es_MX
es_MX.iso88591
fr_FR
fr_FR.iso88591
fr_FR.iso885915@euro
fr_FR@euro
franþais
french
german
it_IT
it_IT.iso88591
italian |
I use a swiss german keyboard:
| Code: | $ grep -v "^#" /etc/conf.d/keymaps | grep "\w"
KEYMAP="sg-latin1"
SET_WINDOWKEYS="yes"
EXTENDED_KEYMAPS=""
DUMPKEYS_CHARSET="" |
Any idea???
Thanks for any hint!
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fidel
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| Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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The thing was that I played around with another charset before (namely ibm850), leaving this definition on the last line of the file
/etc/locale.gen:
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de_CH UTF-8
de_CH IBM850
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Was the reason. I just changed this to
| Code: | ...
de_CH IBM850
de_CH UTF-8 |
ran locale-gen again and the problems were gone! So nothing to do with the updates!  |
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