[arch-general] Accented characters in X terminal?

[Mauro Santos]

On 14-12-2011 19:30, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 01:21:20PM +0000, Mauro Santos wrote:
>> On 14-12-2011 12:48, Magnus Therning wrote:
>>> I just noticed that I no longer get accented characters in my
>>> terminals (I've tested lxterminal and gnome-terminal so far).  Instead
>>> of the Swedish characters "åäö" I get "???".  Far from ideal.  This
>>> used to work a while ago (we're talking days, possibly weeks).  As you
>>> notice it works well in non-terminals (like in Chromium where I've
>>> writing this).  Anyone else seeing the same behaviour?
>>>
>>> A search turned up this answer-less forum post[1] , if there's an
>>> answer then I'll re-post it there too :)
>>>
>>> /M
>>>
>>> [1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=131000
>>>
>>
>> You will probably have to tweak your KEYMAP and CONSOLEFONT settings
>> in /etc/rc.conf. I remember that a while back I've changed it so I
>> could get accented characters in ttys, however I don't remember well
>> if things worked in terminal emulators but I think it did work fine
>> (I use XFCE and terminal as a terminal emulator). For the record I'm
>> using and I've always used bash.
>>
>> For reference/example this is what I have in /etc/rc.conf
>> KEYMAP="pt-latin9 compose.latin1"
>> CONSOLEFONT="lat9v-16"
> 
> So, what has changed in the last few weeks that would make my old,
> working configuration no longer work?
> 
> /M
> 

Thinking better about it, check your pacman logs for any font updates
and try setting the terminal emulator to use a different font, maybe to
a font that renders properly in other places like a text editor.

-- 
Mauro Santos