On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:56:25PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >(xterm inherits its locale from the environment - as a cursory reading > >of uxterm would reveal -) > > In my case the environment consists of a gnome session started with > gdm, LANG set to de_DE.UTF-8 and LC_NUMMERIC set to C. Starting an > uxterm didn't satisfy me (AFAIR: ugly font rendering, too much spaces > between characters for all fonts I tried), starting a gnome terminal > did (sort of, IMHO it's too large, but I got around it). Both That sounds as if you overrode the font resources to use a proportional font, or attempted to use TrueType fonts without having them setup properly. (gnome uses separate configuration data for the latter). > terminals did show the same locale related content in "printenv". ...also (it would be nice to have documentation for gnome-terminal), I've observed that it tries to setup UTF-8 support whether or not the locale is set for UTF-8. (This makes it fail number of screens in vttest in interesting ways). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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