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

[Vincent Ho]

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:08:02PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:

> 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.

Well, as I alluded to in my last mail, I think changing the encoding
after gnome-terminal starts is always going to cause problems, because
it can't know when you change things, nor should it periodically poll to
check for changes.  I think that way lies madness :)

So I'd say the locale encoding must be set appropriately before
gnome-terminal is started.  That means the user should tell gdm what
locale they want, or use the solution in David Pashley's blog post and
put it in ~/.dmrc.


   Vince

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