xchat kde character set?

[de4d]

im running xchat (in KDE) and have trouble about the used charcter set.
there are some guys who use special language specific characters.
xhat - instead of leaving these just blank (which i wouldnt even care) - displays each line only until to these characters. the rest of the line (where should be text) is not updated i.e. the text that was there before (usually the line above) remains. the only way to read these lines is selecting the text w/ mouse (which makes xhat update the display - the special characters are blanked).
now, what am i doing wrong?
i cant tell if this happens whith caracters other than äüöß, but that should be enuff.

thanx in advance ...
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[samppa]

I had the same problem here and started to use irssi since this problem was too irritating.

A line like: abc öä efg hig
would show in xchat as: abc

as you described.

[lowgitek]

I fixed my xchat using this charset and font settings:


-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-15


But the problem is not the font it self ... You have to disable the option

[] Use a font set


After that it should be working.

I hope this could help

[bernd]

i had the same problem. a easy way to fix these is to edit /etc/profile

write at the end of the file ---> export LANG="de_DE@euro"

where de_DE@euro ist for german users (like me )

so use the correct language-set for your language or de_DE@euro if you are german.

After a reboot xchat will work fine.

bernd

[lowgitek]