Bug 881541 - UTF-8 characters not displayed correctly.
Summary: UTF-8 characters not displayed correctly.
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Terminal
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kevin Fenzi
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-11-29 04:00 UTC by Dave Jones
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-11-30 22:06:08 UTC
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Description Dave Jones 2012-11-29 04:00:41 UTC 
Worked fine in F17. Font set to liberation mono, (though same effect with any other font I've tried).

Characters are rendered as a series of boxes.

As an example: When I run printf '\xe2\x99\xaa\n';

Instead of "♪" I see "âª"
Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2012-11-29 13:28:21 UTC 
Odd. This is Xfce's "Terminal" app right?

Whats in /etc/locale.conf ?

Do any other terminals work?
Comment 2 Dave Jones 2012-11-30 20:35:41 UTC 
Yes. Xfce's. Though gnome-terminal does the same.

locale.conf says..

LANG="en_US"

hmm. My 17 box had LANG=en_US.UTF-8 there.
I'll try changing that.
Comment 3 Dave Jones 2012-11-30 21:15:16 UTC 
That fixed it.

Now I wonder how it got screwed up. This was a fresh install from an rsync'd beta tree.

I did a yum update from 17->18 on another box and this didn't happen. Very weird.

Feel free to close it out if there are no other reports of it happening.
Comment 4 Kevin Fenzi 2012-11-30 22:06:08 UTC 
Might be an anaconda bug on new installs... but I guess we can reopen if more folks see it.
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