On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Martti Kühne <mysatyre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:11:40AM +0200, anti wrote: >> I noticed today that my zsh-prompt in the tty's didn't show the same >> letters as in the terminal emulators. First I thought I might have a >> corrupted ~/.zshrc.local, but while it showed the correct encoding in >> geany as well as in the terminal editors in X, it showed a sequence of >> letters (sth like "ßäü") instead of "┌─" when editing it in the tty. >> Invoking 'locale -a' shows as possible locales "en_GB.utf8", while my >> locale in rc.conf was set to "en_GB.UTF-8". Changing the line in rc.conf >> to the locale given by locale -a and rebooting solved the problem. >> My questions: >> 1. Did I find a solution to my problem, or a mere workaround that might >> create more problems after future updates? > > Heh... I just noticed locale -a shows the same lowercase .utf8 ending, while > /etc/locale.gen still contains the uppercase ones which I also considered > valid. There shouldn't be any difference in behavior; see <http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-utf8@xxxxxxxxxxxx/msg01694.html> for an explanation. The `tree` tool is one unfortunate exception. I never get around to filing a bug report about it. Maybe initscripts and/or your shellrc also have a broken test for ".utf-8"? -- Mantas Mikulėnas
