Solved: Locale issue for Konsole under KDE

[weiypan_us]

Hi I need help on locale to display Chinese characters under Konsole under KDE

my locale output is

[mike155]

1. Which font is configured in Konsole? Does it support Chinese characters?
   
   
2. Please post the contents of the file '/etc/locale.conf'
   
   
3. Please post the contents of the file '/etc/locale.gen'
   
   
4. Please post the output of
   

   Code:

   locale -a

   
   and of
   

   Code:

   eselect locale list

   
   
   

[weiypan_us]

Hi mike155,

[mike155]

Thanks for your data.

1. In Konsole, in the menu bar: open "Settings" / "Edit Current Profile". Click on "Appearance" and on "Color scheme & font". There's a text field "font". Which font is selected?
   
   
2. In Konsole, in the menu bar:: open "Settings" / "Edit Current Profile". Click on "Advanced". There's a selection box "Default character encoding". It must be set to "UTF-8". Is it?
   
   
3. Enter the lines below in a Konsole window:
   

   Code:

   cd / ls -la

   
   You will see a directory listing with dates and times in US-American format, right?
   
   
4. Now enter:
   

   Code:

   export LANG="zh_CN.UTF-8" ls -la

   
   What do you see? There should be a directory listing with dates and times in Chinese format. Each line should contain at least one Chinese character (月). Do you see it? Or do you see garbled output?
   

[weiypan_us]

1. In Konsole, in the menu bar: open "Settings" / "Edit Current Profile". Click on "Appearance" and on "Color scheme & font". There's a text field "font". Which font is selected? Hack

2. In Konsole, in the menu bar:: open "Settings" / "Edit Current Profile". Click on "Advanced". There's a selection box "Default character encoding". It must be set to "UTF-8". Is it? ISO-8859-1

3. Enter the lines below in a Konsole window:

[mike155]

Please set your character encoding in Konsole to UTF-8:

• Open "Settings" / "Edit Current Profile". Click on "Advanced". There's a selection box "Default character encoding". Choose "Unicode" / "UTF-8".

Then re-try:

[weiypan_us]

Hi mike155, it works now.

blk161@asus / $ export LANG="zh_CN.UTF-8"
blk161@asus / $ ls -l
total 231
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 6月 14 18:29 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 3072 5月 26 21:24 boot
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4540 7月 4 14:42 dev
drwxrwxrwt 27 root root 4096 2月 24 22:43 DVD
drwxr-xr-x 104 root root 4096 6月 29 21:01 etc
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2月 19 2017 home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 5月 18 20:31 lib -> lib64
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 5月 18 20:32 lib32
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 12288 6月 14 18:29 lib64
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 7月 14 2014 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 5月 4 20:14 media
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 8月 15 2014 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 3月 8 2017 mnt_weipan
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 6月 22 16:47 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 250 root root 0 6月 29 21:01 proc
drwx------ 14 root root 4096 6月 30 23:20 root
drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 1020 6月 30 03:40 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 6月 14 18:29 sbin
dr-xr-xr-x 12 root root 0 6月 29 21:01 sys
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 9月 30 2014 t
drwxrwxrwt 9 blk161 blk161 131072 7月 6 14:37 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 12月 29 2016 usr
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 4月 29 01:57 var
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 3月 3 2015 z
blk161@asus / $

[mike155]

Great!

Please keep in mind:

1. Use
   

   Code:

   eselect locale list

   and

   Code:

   eselect locale set <N>

   
   to select the default output language and encoding of your applications
   
   
2. Unless you have very specific and strong reasons, choose "UTF-8" as encoding
   
   
3. The encoding of your terminal (Konsole, xterm, PuTTY, whatever you use) must match the encoding you selected with 'eselect locale'
   

[weiypan_us]