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Re: [Nano-devel] poll: who builds and uses nano without UTF-8 support?
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Benno Schulenberg |
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Re: [Nano-devel] poll: who builds and uses nano without UTF-8 support? |
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Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:48:31 +0200 |
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Op 09-07-18 om 09:58 schreef Brand Huntsman:
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 20:07:46 +0200
> Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I have switched the default character set of the terminal to
>> ISO-8895-1 too, but it makes no difference.
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> You need to change LANG to a non-utf8 locale before starting the terminal.
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> export LANG= ; xterm
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> Works for xterm and urxvt.
Thanks. Turns out that xfce4-terminal will start with my system's
locale (nl_NL.UTF-8) no matter in what environment it is started.
Luckily, xterm respects the environment and shows each UTF-8 byte
as a single character when started with LC_ALL=nl_NL.iso88591, as
expected.
Benno
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