Re: gnome-terminal and multiple locales?

[Grant McLean <grant mclean net nz>]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:33 +0200, Aurélien Naldi wrote: 
> the "--disable-factory" trick is nice as a workaround but I think that
> this can be relatively easy to fix using profiles.
> 
> Here you do not really want to change the locale of your terminal,
> only its encoding. gnome-terminal already has the ability to change
> the encoding while running (in the "terminal" menu). It would be much
> more useful if the encoding could be stored as a profile property, to
> avoid changing this setting each time.
> 
> a bug for this exists already: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108711

Thanks for that bug link.  It certainly appears that many people want to
be able to specify an encoding in the profile.  It doesn't appear to be
a priority for the developers though :-(

Regards
Grant