How to make UTF-8 the deault charcater set in Gnome Terminal

[Reinhard Sy]

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 22:13, Björn Persson wrote:
> Reinhard Sy wrote:
> 
> > The default encoding is: ANSI_X3.4-1968
> 
> (Also known as ASCII.)
> 
> > I can select UTF-8 but I would like to make this the default. Where I
> > can set the default character encoding for Gnome Terminal ?
> 
> I don't know about Gnome Terminal, but in the file /etc/sysconfig/i18n
> you can set the default character encoding for the whole system. Add
> ".UTF-8" to the variable LANG. You probably want it to look like this:
> 
> LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
> 
> ("de_DE" means German. "i18n" stands for "internationalization".)
> 
> I'm not sure exactly how this file is used, but you may have to add the
> same value to the list in SUPPORTED. It may look something like this:
> 
> SUPPORTED="en_US:en:de_DE:de:de_DE.UTF-8"

here my i18n - file:

[root at puffin sysconfig]# cat i18n
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="de_DE.UTF-8:de_DE:de"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
[root at puffin sysconfig]#

But this does not change the default gnome-terminal character encoding.

Reinhard




> 
> Are you sure it's UTF-8 you want? If you have existing text files they
> may be encoded in ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15.
> 
> Björn Persson