Re: changing to UTF-8

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 06:08:01PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
Thank you both for your help.

You could try cleaning things up a bit with 'localepurge'

Looking at the package description, this doesn't seem like a good idea. And
anyway, my problem isn't that I have too many locales. It seems to be a
font problem.

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Yes, I have tried this. It resets /etc/locale.gen.

$ cat /etc/default/locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

$ cat /etc/default/locale
# File generated by update-locale
LANG=en_US

So your system default is not UTF-8 locale.

I get the same result if it's LANG=en_US.UTF-8.

Did you reboot? This is a file which set default locale.

(I know we do not need to reboot to fix this ... but this is simpler to explain.)

$ env |egrep "(^LC|LANG)"
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8

$ env |egrep "(^LC|LANG)"
LANG=en_US

Now your system is acting as non-UTF-8 locale now.

$ cat ~/.dmrc
[Desktop]
Session=gnome

$ cat ~/.dmrc
[Desktop]
Session=default

And note that I have

$ locale
LANG=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=

non-UTF-8

$ locale -a
C
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8

Now you have capability to set to UTF-8

POSIX

$ egrep -v '^(#|$)' /etc/locale.gen
en_US UTF-8
en_US.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

All of this is as it's supposed to be. I try switching between en_US and
en_US.UTF-8, but it doesn't help. I still see characters such as hyphens
(-), boldface pipes, and single quotes rendered as â (circumflex-a) in my
terminal windows. If I set LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, then the characters are
shown correctly.

I think this is a font problem, but I just don't know how to diagnose it.

No.


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