en_US.UTF-8 not displaying diacritical characters?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Jun 27 09:06:15 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 10:16 +0200, Jamicide wrote:
> I am having trouble getting filenames containing French/Spanish/etc
> diacritical characters to display correctly in FC4. In place of any
> 'accented' characters in the filename are '?'.
> 
> Looking into the situation a bit revealed that using the en_US.UTF-8
> locale (which I believe I am) should properly display these
> characters, however it is not.

That sets the system up.  But is your terminal, also, set the same way?
If you're using gnome-terminal, there's menu options for the character
encoding.  KDE's terminal has something similar, though I don't recall
what they called it. 

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr
2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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