On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 01:21:20PM +0000, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 14-12-2011 12:48, Magnus Therning wrote: > > I just noticed that I no longer get accented characters in my > > terminals (I've tested lxterminal and gnome-terminal so far). Instead > > of the Swedish characters "åäö" I get "???". Far from ideal. This > > used to work a while ago (we're talking days, possibly weeks). As you > > notice it works well in non-terminals (like in Chromium where I've > > writing this). Anyone else seeing the same behaviour? > > > > A search turned up this answer-less forum post[1] , if there's an > > answer then I'll re-post it there too :) > > > > /M > > > > [1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=131000 > > > > You will probably have to tweak your KEYMAP and CONSOLEFONT settings > in /etc/rc.conf. I remember that a while back I've changed it so I > could get accented characters in ttys, however I don't remember well > if things worked in terminal emulators but I think it did work fine > (I use XFCE and terminal as a terminal emulator). For the record I'm > using and I've always used bash. > > For reference/example this is what I have in /etc/rc.conf > KEYMAP="pt-latin9 compose.latin1" > CONSOLEFONT="lat9v-16" So, what has changed in the last few weeks that would make my old, working configuration no longer work? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. -- Alan Kay
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