Re: Default character encoding in Gnome Terminal

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 06:48:40AM +0100, Sebastian Tennant wrote:
> I asked this question a few weeks ago, so apologies for repeating
> myself but it's still bugging me like mad...
> 
> Does anyone know how to set the default character encoding in Gnome
> Terminal?  At the moment it defaults to:
> 
>   'Current locale - (ANSI_X3.4-1968)'
> 
> which has nothing to do with my environment/locale.
> 
> For instance, in a newly opened terminal:
> 
>   dellboy:~$ locale
>   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
[..]

It must be set in the environment read by gnome-terminal. Appears your
locale is set too late. 

Try for instance:
1. killall gnome-terminal (do not run this on Solaris ;)
2. start an xterm
3. start gnome-terminal

now see what encoding gnome-terminal selected...

Change your config so that the locale is correctly set from gdm.

-- 
Regards,
Olav