Upstart itself is running in the C locale, which means that any processes started from it are also run in the C locale - so strings are interpreted as ascii, not as UTF-8. exporting LANG before calling x -terminal-emulator should be enough to fix this. I don't think there's any bug in upstart here.
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1095949 Title: Problem with special characters To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/1095949/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs