Bug#257709: gnome-terminal: failing to paste accented characters

[Stewart Jeacocke]

On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 19:26 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > The problem is that you are not using a UTF-8 (Unicode) system locale.
> > Run
> >
> > # pkg-reconfigure locales
> > 
> > and select a Unicode locale (eg en_GB.UTF-8) as the default system
> > locale. Log out of GNOME and log back in.
> 
> Yeah, OK, thanks, that seems to explain the symptoms.  As a practical
> problem, it seems that most of the email and newgroups I see are using
> iso-8859-1, so that's the only thing that seems to work as a default
> encoding for my terminal.

I'm pretty sure that iso-8859-1 encoding is a subset of the Unicode
encoding. So even when the locale is set to a Unicode encoding
iso-8859-1 (extended ASCI) documents should still work fine (they seem
to here).

If they really don't then would you attach an example file that contains
characters that fail to render with a Unicode locale?

Thanks

Stewart