Bug#364486: gnome-terminal doesn't handle utf-8 anymore

[Bas Zoetekouw]

Hi Vincent!

You wrote:

> > So, it seems that, rather then looking at the charset of the current
> > session inside the terminal, gnome-terminal uses some other way to
> > determine the charset to use.  I'm not sure if it's relevant here, but
> > I don't set a locale in /etc/environment, only in ~/.zshrc.
> 
> Aha :) Sounds like the original problem was caused by the breakage in
> libc6 2.3.6-5, which removed locale settings from /etc/environment and
> put them in /etc/default/locale.  gdm didn't know about that file,
> leaving a user in the C locale.
> 
> Later versions of libc6 (2.3.6-6 through -8) just copy settings from
> /etc/environment rather than moving them, and eventually gdm 2.14.4-1
> started reading /etc/default/locale.

Ok, but what if the user (like me) sets his locale in ~/.bashrc or so?
Specifically, if this locale is different from the system locale, things
will still break.

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