[Pkg-urxvt-maintainers] Bug#673206: Bug#673206: More information

[Nicolas Évrard]

* Ryan Kavanagh  [2012-05-17 14:00 +0200]: 
>Hi,
>
>On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:00:30AM +0200, Nicolas Évrard wrote:
>> I notice that if I start urxvt from an xterm window then the UTF-8
>> characters display properly. I am a bit puzzled about the cause of the
>> bug.
>
>I used to encounter this quite a bit on FreeBSD and found it to be an
>instance of the following FAQ in urxvt(7). Could you please confirm that
>it is not so in your case?
>
>| Unicode does not seem to work?
>|
>| If you encounter strange problems like typing an accented character but
>| getting two unrelated other characters or similar, or if program output
>| is subtly garbled, then you should check your locale settings.
>|
>| Rxvt-unicode must be started with the same "LC_CTYPE" setting as the
>| programs running in it. Often rxvt-unicode is started in the "C"
>| locale, while the login script running within the rxvt-unicode window
>| changes the locale to something else, e.g. "en_GB.UTF-8". Needless to
>| say, this is not going to work, and is the most common cause for
>| problems.

Good catch : I changed my .xsessionrc to add 

     export LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8

and now everything works fine.

-- 
(°> Nicolas Évrard
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