On Mar 07 16:54:36, jean-michel.bes...@lacomte.net wrote: > the accented characters show when I start the terminal manually after the > start of spectrwm. But the one launched automatically with spectrwm does not > show characters.
Run env in both and see the difference. Does the "terminal" (= xterm?) launch a login shell (as in ksh -l), and thus read your ~/.profile? Jan