José Alburquerque wrote: > I have an interesting little question. I have some text files in a > folder with international character filenames (ie. the file names > contain characters such as é,ñ,¡, etc.). I try to open these files with > vim from nautilus. However, it seems that because of the "unusual" > characters, vim cannot open the files. > > If I issue the command (gvim "<filename>.txt") from a gnome-terminal > (running bash), vim opens it with no problems and displays the name of > the file (with the international characters) fine at the bottom. (BTW, > when I open from nautilus vim shows the filename but the international > characters are translated to funny characters). > > I've been able to find that in the gnome-terminal the shell variable > "LANG" is defined to have the value "en_US.UTF-8". If I unset this > variable and attempt to vi, the filename displayed at the bottom of the > vim window is again sort of "garbled" as occurs in nautilus. > > This sort of leads me to believe that the LANG variable is not defined > when gnome starts up but is defined in the terminal (I guess from my > .bashrc). > > Would anyone know how I might get nautilus to open these files > correctly? I'm running GNOME 2.14 and my system starts in X mode > running gdm. > > I just found out that the "LANG" variable has nothing to do with this. I issued the command 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8 nautilus --no-desktop' which brings up a nautilus window that exhibits the same behavior. Anyone has any ideas? Much appreciate it. -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
