Bug#512497: gnome-terminal: Gnome terminal does not respect locale's character encoding

[Samuel Mimram]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 21 janvier 2009 à 10:51 +0100, Samuel Mimram a écrit :
>> It seems that gnome terminal does not comply with locale's character
>> encoding. My locale is:
>>
>> % locale
>> LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> 
> How is this locale set? Is it /etc/default/locale, ~/.dmrc or set
> somewhere in your shell’s environment? If the last one, this is
> expected, since the gnome-terminal process will not obtain the setting
> in its environment.

Ok. So now it works since I have set the locale in .dmrc. I used to set
the locale in my .bashrc which explains the output of locale.

However, why is the menu claiming that the encoding is UTF-8 even when
it is not?

Cheers,

Samuel.