Weird terminal behavior with accented characters


Hi,



I had a lot of difficulties setting locales to correctly display
accented characters in console.



I finally had to edit /var/lib/locales/supported.d/fr and run
'dpkg-reconfigure locales'.



Now 'locale' displays this:



LANG=fr_BE

LANGUAGE=fr_BE

LC_CTYPE="fr_BE"

LC_NUMERIC="fr_BE"

LC_TIME="fr_BE"

LC_COLLATE="fr_BE"

LC_MONETARY="fr_BE"

LC_MESSAGES="fr_BE"

LC_PAPER="fr_BE"

LC_NAME="fr_BE"

LC_ADDRESS="fr_BE"

LC_TELEPHONE="fr_BE"

LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_BE"

LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_BE"

LC_ALL=



The problem I have now is that if I launch a terminal (rxvt, urxvt or
Eterm), accented characters displays correctly except if I delete them
(with backspace). Deleting one accented character removes two
characters.



I'm using gnome 2.14.2-0ubuntu1 and I launch my terminal window from a
panel launcher.



I found that if I launch another terminal inside one terminal,
everything works fine. Accented characters displays correctly and
deleting one accented character deletes exactly one character.



I tried different combination like launching a shell script like that:

rxvt &



Or checking the "run in terminal" option from the launcher properties
but without success.



What is the problem I didn't had that kind of problem on my old Debian
system (no troll here, I highly praise Ubuntu).



Thank you in advance for your help.



--

Olivier Laurent


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