On Jan 21, 2008 1:32 AM, Jens Petersen <petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Natxo Asenjo, > > > since fedora8 I have an awkward problem. In an xterm or console > > session all diacritic characters appear like this: > > http://www.asenjo.nl/Screenshot-xterm.png > > that is, they are replaced by blanks. In other applications like > > openoffice this is not a problem. > > Sorry the screenshot doesn't help me much since I can't read Spanish - > so I am not sure where the blanks are appearing... ok, fair enough: I try to see words like (now I copy paste from openoffice): Iňaki, espaňol, camión and what I see is: I aki, espa ol, cami n > > it is awkward because I am used to using console programs like mutt > > for my email, so this is something that I come across really often. > > > LC_CTYPE="en_US" > > LC_NUMERIC="en_US" > > LC_TIME="en_US" > > LC_COLLATE="en_US" > > LC_MONETARY="en_US" > > LC_MESSAGES="en_US" > > LC_PAPER="en_US" > > LC_NAME="en_US" > > LC_ADDRESS="en_US" > > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" > > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" > > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" > > Are you intentionally not using UTF-8? not that I know of. I use the tool in system->administration-> language and choose English (USA); I do not see English utf-8 in there to change the locale; could you tell me where I can do that? > > I have changed the system locale to Spanish (Spain) but it does not > > help (I rebooted the system for the changes to take place). > > Ok. > > > Does anybody know where I could fix this? This has worked perfectly in > > fedora6 and fedora7, so I am a bit puzzled. > > So is it just a display problem in terms? yes, it is just a display problem in terminals (but an annoying one for me ;-) ). -- Groeten, J.Asenjo -- Fedora-i18n-list mailing list Fedora-i18n-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-i18n-list