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

J. Bruce Fields "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>, 257709@bugs.debian.org
Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:24:35 -0400


On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:50:40AM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> At least e-mail (and probably newsgroups too) indicate which encoding there
> using in the headers. So a mail reader should convert from the mails locale to
> the terminals locale if possible (Which mutt does fine with for example this
> mail when in an utf-8 terminal).. That's not a problem of the terminal.

With utf-8 set in gdm, gnome-terminal, and my .bashrc (my ssh login
sessions seem to revert back to POSIX/C otherwise), that conversion
works, in mutt, tin, and vi.  Thanks!  Apologies for my ignorance on
this subject....

--b.