On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am using XFCE on F18. Unfortunately, the accented characters in the >> file names are not shown correctly on Thunar, as well as on Terminal. >> Is there some workaround? > > Post the output of running the locale command (as the user you're logged > in as). My guess is that you're not using the write character encoding > (usually, UTF8, these days). Thanks, Tim. My locale command produces the following: $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= $ Paul -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org