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wuwei

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From: Italy

Registered: 2017-01-29

Posts: 58

[SOLVED] Strange chars displayed in xfce4-terminal

Hi, I've a problem reading the .desktop files located in /usr/share/applications.
My system is the latest Arch Linux in a VMWare Fusion VM, so when I open in xfce4-terminal a .desktop file (for example: exo-mail-reader.desktop), many items "Name" or "Comment" are displayed incorrectly. Instead, if I open the same file with a text editor such as Mousepad all is displayed correctly.

For comparison, I also checked the default character encoding in the Xubuntu xfce4-terminal which is "Default (UTF-8)" and all is ok, in arch the default was "(ANSI_X3.4-1968)", I've tried to change to UTF-8 with no success.
What's wrong? Something missing or set incorrectly?
Thanks.

screenshot arch linux

screenshot xubuntu

Last edited by wuwei (2017-01-30 11:04:36)

wuwei

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From: Italy

Registered: 2017-01-29

Posts: 58

Re: [SOLVED] Strange chars displayed in xfce4-terminal

I've resolved by myself adding in .bashrc:
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
echoing $LANG said:
C

Thanks.

Last edited by wuwei (2017-01-30 11:01:05)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,493

Re: [SOLVED] Strange chars displayed in xfce4-terminal

Make sure that your locale is set up correctly.

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