[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#687029: Bug#687029: xfce4-terminal: wrong characters show in terminal

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On sam., 2012-09-08 at 17:46 +0200, oivulf at gmail.com wrote:
> Package: xfce4-terminal
> Version: 0.4.5-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: l10n
> 
> Terminal oriented applications like man show strange characters.
> In man pages, instead of hyphen, three black <?> symbols appear.

Can you make a screenshot?
> In aptitude question marks in hexagon delimit the screen.
> This happens only in xfce4-terminal, not in urxvt, uxterm or
> evilvte (to rule out libvte).
> I also tried different locale settings, my default is below and
> different fonts, my default being inconsolata
> 
> LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=
> LC_CTYPE="it_IT.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC=POSIX
> LC_TIME="it_IT.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="it_IT.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="it_IT.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES=POSIX
> LC_PAPER="it_IT.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="it_IT.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="it_IT.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="it_IT.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="it_IT.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="it_IT.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=

My guess is that while your shell has the correct locales the
xfce4-terminal doesn't have them (like if they're set in .bashrc or
something)

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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