On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Roberto Ragusa <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? > > Open a terminal and cd to a writeable directory of your choice (which you > can access with Thunar). > > Reproduce these commands and see if your results are different: > > > $ perl -e 'print "\xe2\x82\xac\n"' > € > > (this is a UTF8 euro sign printed in the terminal) > > > $ perl -e 'print "\xe2\x82\xac\n"'|wc -m > 2 > > (this is confirmation that the system knows it's a euro and a linefeed) > > > $ perl -e 'print "touch \xe2\x82\xac\n"'|sh > > (this is to create a file with a euro name, now check what is shown in Thunar) > > > Let me know what you get. Thanks, Roberto. I get everything correct, likewise what you get. The problem occurs with directories that I brought in from previous Fedora installations. For example, I get the following in Thunar: Estat�stica (invalid encoding) 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
