Re: accented characters not showing

On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 05:11:55PM +0100, BESSOT Jean-Michel wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a problem the accented characters showing _ in shell . I have
> installed and configured spleen font. put LANG and LC_CTYPE to fr_FR.UTF-8
> but it do not show up. If you have an idea ?
>
> here locale command:
>
> jean-mi@x1:~$ locale
> LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
> LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8
> LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=

The locale looks fine.

Are you running in X11 or on console?
The console does not support UTF-8. You will need to run X11.

To get a working setup you can then tweak, put this line into ~/.xsession:

export LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8

And log in via xenodm.

Configure a font which xterm can use. For example, put this line:

XTerm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono

into ~/.Xdefaults and then run

xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults

A newly started xterm should now show accented characters.