On 14-12-2011 19:30, Magnus Therning wrote: > 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 > Thinking better about it, check your pacman logs for any font updates and try setting the terminal emulator to use a different font, maybe to a font that renders properly in other places like a text editor. -- Mauro Santos
