lxterminal UTF-8 support non-extant?

LXTerminal is the standard terminal emulator of LXDE - http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTerminal
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joshudson
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lxterminal UTF-8 support non-extant?

Post by joshudson »

lxtermnal appears to not support UTF-8 at all.

When started with no arguments, echo -e '\xe2\x82\xac' shows three garbage characters rather than the expected euro sign.

Some internet posts suggest LANG=en_US.UTF-8 would work; I have en_US.UTF-8 and the toolkit recognizes this (warning on terminal appears if I misspell it but not if I spell it correctly) but it doesn't appear to do anything, and the variable is reset to en_US and the terminal still doesn't support UTF-8.

Not sure if my distro (debian buster) has a problem or if I need to throw some other switch I can't seem to find or if there's some bug or if it's just plain old not implemented.
drooly
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Re: lxterminal UTF-8 support non-extant?

Post by drooly »

I don't know either, I don't use lxterminal, but it works on my urxvt.
Maybe the font(s) you are using simply do not provide this character?
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