Bug#731443: gnome-terminal forces default character encoding to ANSIX3.4-1968 (ASCII) but doesn't set up LC_CTYPE

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2013-12-06 13:42:08 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 06/12/13 10:24, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2013-12-05 15:31:30 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >>   Current Locale (ANSIX3.4-1968)
> > 
> > This problem doesn't occur when I run gnome-terminal on a different
> > machine via ssh: I get "Current Locale (UTF-8)" as expected.
> 
> I wonder whether your first machine has some leftover configuration from
> an old machine, or something...

No, I get the same behavior on both machines. What matters is whether
I start gnome-terminal locally or via ssh. And starting gnome-terminal
after a "ssh localhost" doesn't work at all (bug 731456).

> my only options are "Unicode (UTF-8)" and "Current Locale (UTF-8)",

This is what I have via ssh.

So, the question is: how does gnome-terminal determine the
"current locale"?

Certainly not via the LC_* environment variables, as they are
the same with and without ssh. And I think that the fact that
gnome-terminal doesn't use them is a bug.

And "LC_ALL=C gnome-terminal" in a ssh session doesn't change
anything: gnome-terminal still selects UTF-8.

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