Character encoding issues - Mageia 2

[dedanna1029]

@viking,

Here is some info
Simply setting your locale to utf-8 should be enough
Maybe you have a font that cannot display ø?

You can query the name of the character encoding in your current locale with the command locale charmap. This should say UTF-8 if you successfully picked a UTF-8 locale in the LC_CTYPE category. -->The command locale -m provides a list with the names of all installed character encodings.<--

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[root@dedanna ~]# locale charmap
ISO-8859-1
[root@dedanna ~]#

and Old compatibility for UTF-8 is set in MCC.

Of interesting note:

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[root@dedanna ~]# locale -m
locale: cannot read character map directory `/usr/share/i18n/charmaps': No such file or directory
[root@dedanna ~]# exit
logout

.:[ [email protected] : 08:44:05 : ~ ]:.
:( locale -m
locale: cannot read character map directory `/usr/share/i18n/charmaps': No such file or directory
.:[ [email protected] : 08:44:09 : ~ ]:.

I think I may be getting somewhere now. I just don't know what to do about it.

[jkerr82508]

Old compatibility for UTF-8 is set in MCC.

That means that you are NOT using UTF-8, as demonstrated by:

[root@dedanna ~]# locale charmap
ISO-8859-1

IIUC, the option does not set compatibility for UTF-8, it changes the encoding from UTF-8 to "Old compatibilty (non-UTF-8) encoding", but it's been years since I've even thought about this.

Jim

[dedanna1029]

OK, I'll turn it off, but even when I had it turned off, the problem still remained.