Bug#240265: gdm: in gdm.conf, Welcome= is unable to deal with special characters

[Mathieu Roy]

Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org> tapota :

> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
>> In gdm.conf, it is not possible to have a Welcome= banner with
>> characters like é or «, and that's a bit annoying.

Hello Ryan,

> The /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file is in UTF-8; did you enter the UTF-8 sequences for
> the characters you wanted added? 

No I did not. I just tried, without succes, to do that. Using emacs, I
picked UTF-8 as language environment, I added a "é" inside the
Welcome= but no text at all showed up when I restarted gdm.

Am I doing something wrong? I am not familiar with UTF-8.

> The current version of the conf file has a comment underneath that
> option mentioning this.

Unfortunately, I kept an old conf file because I was fine with my
setup. 

Regards,


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