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encoding accent character

asked 2013-02-03 19:20:07 +0000

MonsieurJc
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Hello,

I'm a new user of i3 and I have some problems. I use i3 on a VM machine on a mac (VMWare fusion). I installed the last version of Ubuntu (12.10).

I have some problem with the encoding of the character. I'm French, and when some words which are written with accent are displayed, the accent character is replace by "??"

I try to change the font of i3 with this line : font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-iso10646-1 but nothing changed ....

At the beginning i didn't have that problem, but as i have some problem with gdm (my lancher), i try to reinstall it or replace him by slim, and at the end go back to gdm because the problem with bigger with slim. But when i was back to i3, the encoding had changed :/ maybe I have to change something in the Ubuntu settings but i don't know how to do that (I already tried to launch Mod+d : gsettings).

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Could you clarify _where_ exactly the problem happens? E.g. are you unable to see the character (which one?) in your window titles?

Michael ( 2013-02-04 07:15:22 +0000 )edit

As you can see, everywhere : imgur.com/iGdtGjt

MonsieurJc ( 2013-02-04 09:47:12 +0000 )edit

I didn't have any .xsession ... just .xession-errors I created one with your lines and reboot but nothing has changed

MonsieurJc ( 2013-02-04 10:20:16 +0000 )edit

Please don’t create answers for comments. Post a comment instead.

Michael ( 2013-02-04 19:37:48 +0000 )edit

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answered 2013-02-04 10:17:44 +0000

Michael
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updated 2013-02-04 19:37:28 +0000

It seems like your locale environment variables are not configured correctly.

Personally, I set up my locales in ~/.xsession like this:

unset LC_ALL
export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
export LC_MESSAGES=C
export LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8

[Edit] Note that you need to chose “Custom” as session type in your login manager (e.g. GDM) so that the .xsession file gets executed.

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I didn't have any .xsession ... just .xession-errors I created one with your lines and reboot but nothing has changed

MonsieurJc ( 2013-02-04 19:39:04 +0000 )edit

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