Bug#512497: gnome-terminal: Gnome terminal does not respect locale's character encoding

[Samuel Mimram]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.24.1.1-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

It seems that gnome terminal does not comply with locale's character
encoding. My locale is:

% locale
LANG=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

However, when I do ls on a dir containing utf-8 files I get:

% ls
éà ù

(obviously this is some 8859-1 or alike encoding). In the menu
Terminal > Set Character Encoding, Unicode (UTF-8) is
selected, but it's not really active as you can see. If I click on
this menu, then I really get an utf-8 terminal:

% ls
éàù

It would be nice if I could avoid clicking to set manually the encoding
each time I spawn a new terminal... I'd be happy to provide any further
information. I think that the issue is quite new (a few weeks at most).

Cheers,

Samuel.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data        2.24.3-1      Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.24.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.24.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                      2.7-18        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                2.24.0-4      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.18.2-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                2.24.1-1      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.24.0-1      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.14.5-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.16-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.22.2-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.9-1         library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                    1:0.17.4-1    Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.5-2     X11 client-side library
ii  scrollkeeper               0.3.14-16     A free electronic cataloging syste

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  yelp                         2.22.1-8+b1 Help browser for GNOME 2

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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