EE-Characters diacritics

[flimflam]

Hello, can i change East European characters to be viewed in some setting when using PUTTY and Midnight Commander?
For example: N??u??n?? = Náučné


Is this problem on the side of B3 or my computer?

[Ubi]

This may work
http://thegreyblog.blogspot.nl/2009/08/ ... utf-8.html

[flimflam]

Than it looks like....

[Ubi]

yeah, but you may have bothered to check if those special characters were working.

[flimflam]

And how to check?

Maybe this is the problem:

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root@b3:~# locale
LANG=
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

In /etc/default/locale ....there is nothing

[Ubi]

well, why not go the exact same folder as the original post and check if it works??

[flimflam]

It is the same as before ...

Maybe something have to be changed on locale.

[Ubi]

I'm going to give up this thread.

[Gordon]

And how to check?

Maybe this is the problem:

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root@b3:~# locale
LANG=
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

It is. Those entries should contain a valid locale, e.g. "en_US.UTF-8". I actually found that when connecting from a Windows machine with Putty, I get the same listing that you posted. However when connecting from my linux desktop the entries do contain the correct values. Very weird.

Try this:

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export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

That should be sufficient to fix the on screen characters.

[flimflam]

Thanx Gordon this helped, but in locale it stays only for this one and only session. When i logout and login again....the same as before!

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flim@b3:~$ locale
LANG=
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

I am connecting from W7 laptop, and maybe in this way the problem could be. When i used your export line all worked perfect. By new putty session everything the same as before. When i type locale ... POSIX is again on all positions. So for me is clear now that on B3 side is some problem.

[Gordon]

That is correct. To make it stick you should add the export(s) to your profile, which is in .bashrc

Note: as a minimum you'll probably want to set the value for LANG as well. And of course if you want to use a different locale than US English you should set that one instead (e.g. "sk_SK.UTF-8")

[flimflam]

Thanx a lot

So to view right diacritics in own language ( SK )...When using W7 and PUTTY. Putty is set to UTF-8 and Consolas/Clear Type.

I had to add in: my_username/.bashrc and .profile

these three lines

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export LC_ALL=sk_SK.UTF-8
export LANG=sk_SK.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=sk_SK.UTF-8

and to make these changes active in the current shell, source the .bashrc:

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source ~/.bashrc

Now no problem.