BESSOT Jean-Michel <jean-michel.bes...@lacomte.net> writes: > hello > > Le 3/6/25 à 5:34 PM, Stefan Sperling a écrit : >> 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. > It is on xenocara. >> 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. > > I did all that. It seems to not bug as it bugged when there was not so > much UTF8 in openbsd (remeber when we delete an UTF8 character). It > seems it is just the displaying that don't work. > > I also tried putting LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8" and no change. > > I missed something when reinstalling and reconfigurating the computer > but I don't see what. > > bye > >
Just put the line below export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in your ~/.profile and ~/.xsession files. $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= -- François Chambaud https://www.chambaud.org
