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Encoding issue with GNU Screen
OS Version: FreeBSD 7-Stable
Screen Version: Screen version 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06 Top level Terms: rxvt-unicode v9.05, xterm v237 PAGER: less -FiJqX EDITOR: vim Locale output: Code:
Terry@dixie$ locale 5:02 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 Terry@dixie$ 5:02 I first noticed the problem when I had to bring out an old friend in my toolbox (perl), when using perldoc I would get strange accented a or A like characters in place of certain characters in the output, so I just did a ssh to my server and read the perldocs there (it's an OpenBSD box with no LC_* or LANG settings in use) and things worked perfect. When I finished my scripts, I noticed the plain old documentation output to my term was just as wacky. As another test, I opened (in vim) some old files with German umlauts, which were also displayed crazy -> as they would be under the wrong locale. If I open urxvt or xterm and then run perldoc (or check my files) in that without screen, everything works correctly. I've tried screens -U, -a, -O, and -T options but no dice. Has anyone else experienced this issue with screen, or perhaps know of a work around?
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I have described similar things here, maybe that would help you:
http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=125
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Nope
My system has ~/login.conf set for en_US.UTF-8, and in ~/.Terry_shrc which serves like ENV in all my interactive shells; it sets LANG, LC_ALL, and MM_CHARSET; since I've encountered some programs that obey $LC_ALL but not $LANG. But no luck what so ever with getting this to work in screen :\ Now, playing around a bit more, I have noticed this; if I launch urxvt, then execute screen -U -m to start a new screen session, it doesn't work irregardless of the environment variables (ref my last post). But if I launch an xterm from bbrun or my current urxct/screen session, launch urxvt from that xterm, then run screen -m in the urxvt window that comes up -> perldoc works correctly. oy...
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Placing this in the shell script that GDM uses to start my X session, seems to correct most of the problem:
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# # override our locale environment # # locale related settings (DEFAULT) TZ='Etc/UTC'; export TZ # my time zone LANG='en_US.UTF-8'; export LANG # language.encoding # some programs require us to set LC_ALL manually as well. LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8'; export LC_ALL MM_CHARSET='UTF-8'; export MM_CHARSET
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