Bug#257709: gnome-terminal: failing to paste accented characters

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:39:57AM +0100, Stewart Jeacocke wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 19:26 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > The problem is that you are not using a UTF-8 (Unicode) system locale.
> > > Run
> > >
> > > # pkg-reconfigure locales
> > > 
> > > and select a Unicode locale (eg en_GB.UTF-8) as the default system
> > > locale. Log out of GNOME and log back in.
> > 
> > Yeah, OK, thanks, that seems to explain the symptoms.  As a practical
> > problem, it seems that most of the email and newgroups I see are using
> > iso-8859-1, so that's the only thing that seems to work as a default
> > encoding for my terminal.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that iso-8859-1 encoding is a subset of the Unicode
> encoding. So even when the locale is set to a Unicode encoding
> iso-8859-1 (extended ASCI) documents should still work fine (they seem
> to here).
> 
> If they really don't then would you attach an example file that contains
> characters that fail to render with a Unicode locale?

None of these:

e with an acute accent: "é"
e with a grace accent: "è"
c with a cedille: "ç"

show up if I choose UTF-8 in gnome-terminal.

iso-8859-1 may be a subset of unicode in the sense that all the
characters it encodes are also in unicode, but I don't believe that the
iso-8859-1 encoding is a subset of UTF-8.  I'm far from an expert on
this, though....

--b.