On 15-12-2011 08:51, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 21:07, Mauro Santos <registo.mailling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] >> 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. > > There is nothing that stands out, and changing the font doesn't > improve things at all :( > > I also tried logging into Gnome3 (using GDM) and then I do get the > accented characters, in both lxterminal and gnome-terminal. > > /M > The only thing that comes to mind now is that gnome3 is overriding (and correctly setting) your keyboard layout. Maybe you can try 'setxkbmap -query' and see if you spot any differences between the setup that works and the one that doesn't. -- Mauro Santos