utf8 not working always?

sammael · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 15

hi, i followed the gentoo handbook on utf8 every single step (three times!) but, some characters still shows up as rectangle or question mark. also in console although i am using terminus font suggested by the guide, if i edit file with accented characters i can't see them.

output of locale:
high-flyer ! backup # locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8

i am of slovak origin, but i prefer all my appz in english. i only need to see accented characters e.g. when i browse some czech/slovak page

or should i set my locale to sk_SK.UTF-8? but wouldn't that mean i'll have my appz in slovak?

well, that's strange, i was just about to post some accented characters here, but when i write them here, i can see them.
the problematic chars for me re:

nearly all in console (e.g. nano somefile, mcedit somefile,...)

in firefox/konqueror/etc: ľ ť ě ů

thing is, on some pages it§s okay, on others only few characters are missing and on some nearly all accented characters are messed up. but when i was using suse, all of them worked perfectly. so i guess i am doing something wrong, but i can't figure what it is...

i am using the same font for whole linux - Bitstream Vera Sans, and terminus for konsole.

can anybody please help me?

R!tman · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:58 pm Post subject:

Your console problems may be related to your console. Are you using a utf8 console?

In firefox, you have the possibility to switch to other encodings. You do that in Edit->Preferences. I'm using utf8 there (as well as in thunderbird), but how characters on webpages (and in emails) look like doesn't only depend on your settings (at least I think so).
If the encoding on a webpages is not fully compatible with utf8, there will be those question marks.

BTW, I also see a question mark in your post ;-)

. It's located in the sentence: "thing is, on some pages it[question mark]s okay, ..."

sammael · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 15

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:52 pm Post subject:

I have made a new install recently on a laptop and in fact I see such utf problems in the console, messed characters, mc is messed and so on. In X all is just fine and in terminal these applications behave fine. The configurations are the same as on my desktop system - I have seen a bug report about ncurses installs two versions of its libraries - unicode and just ascii, which leads to problems. Probably I should rebuild system to see if this helps.

On a side note it should be Zürich

, and I don't have problems with the characters in your post.
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sammael · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 15

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:24 pm Post subject:

well I have a german keyboard, so it is easy for me

I have almost the same setup as you want, the system itself is :

R!tman · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject:

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:45 pm Post subject:

This is strange as it is only in your profile, where die Umlaute look in such way, the german sub-forums look just normal and I don't need to switch the browser encoding - it stays on automatic.
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Hey little bitch!
Be glad you finally walked away or you may have not lived another day."
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sammael · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 15

sammael · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 15

hello, anybody experiencing something like this?

anybody?