On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 05:11:55PM +0100, BESSOT Jean-Michel wrote: > Hello > > I have a problem the accented characters showing _ in shell . I have > installed and configured spleen font. put LANG and LC_CTYPE to fr_FR.UTF-8 > but it do not show up. If you have an idea ? > > here locale command: > > jean-mi@x1:~$ locale > LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 > LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 > LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_ALL=
The locale looks fine. Are you running in X11 or on console? The console does not support UTF-8. You will need to run X11. To get a working setup you can then tweak, put this line into ~/.xsession: export LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 And log in via xenodm. Configure a font which xterm can use. For example, put this line: XTerm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono into ~/.Xdefaults and then run xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults A newly started xterm should now show accented characters.
