Bug#245796: gnome-terminal: commandline parameter for character coding

[Shot]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.4.2-7
Severity: wishlist

Hello.

Is there a chance for a commandline parameter decribing the character
coding of a new window/tab? I'm using an UTF-8 locale in my system, but
some commandline programs won't work with UTF-8, and each time I spawn
a new gnome-terminal window for one of them I have to manually reset the
"Terminal | Character coding" menu; if there was a commandline setting
I could simply add it to the wrapper that spawns the terminal.

Cheers,
-- Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-control-center        1:2.4.0-9    The GNOME Control Center for GNOME
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.16-5     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.4.1-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0               0.2.6-3      Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.4.3-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0              2.4.3-2      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                     0.2.29-1     Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1              2.2.2-2      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.1.7-2      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.4.0.1-4    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt1                  1.1.12-4     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.0.1-13   Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.2.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.4.0-11     The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.4.0-3      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.4.0.1-12   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.4.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common         2.4.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls7                  0.8.12-5     GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.2.4-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                     4.3.0-7      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-9         The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-3        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.8.3-2    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.2.5-4      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                      4.3.0-7      X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0    0.6-2        library for program launch feedbac
ii  libtasn1-0                  0.1.2-1      Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libvte4                     1:0.11.10-8  Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                    4.3.0-7      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxft2                     2.1.2-6      FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxml2                     2.6.9-1      GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1                 0.8.3-7      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper                0.3.14-8     A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                       4.3.0-7      X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-5    compression library - runtime

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