utf-8 console

[Albretch Mueller]

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I code java and I use international characters that are not part of latin-1
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How can I make the console print these characters as they are supposed to be?
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Thank you
lbrtchx

[Marty Jack]

You need to ensure that the environment variable LANG is appropriately defined to include the desired encoding which in your case is UTF-8. Many people put this definition into their shell initialization script.

So for example if you were German you might have in your .bashrc

export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

[Albretch Mueller]

You need to ensure that the environment variable LANG is appropriately defined to include the desired encoding which in your case is UTF-8. Many people put this definition into their shell initialization script.

So for example if you were German you might have in your .bashrc

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OK, since in my case knoppix 6.2 .bashrc
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knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ cat .bashrc
# /etc/bash.bashrc
[ -f /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile

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reads off its data from /etc/profile I did change it there:
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$ cat /proc/cmdline
ramdisk_size=100000 lang=en vt.default_utf8=0 apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet loglevel=0 tz=localtime BOOT_IMAGE=linux init 2 xmodule=vesa fb1280x1024 depth=16 fromhd=/dev/sdb5
knoppix@Microknoppix:/media/sdb3/prjx/KorpusMuse/SRodDom/sIlabas_Espan~ol$ cat /etc/profile
# /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1))
# and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...).

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
   PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

if [ "$PS1" ]; then
  if [ "$BASH" ]; then
    PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
  else
    if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
      PS1='# '
    else
      PS1='$ '
    fi
  fi
fi

export PATH
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export CHARSET=UTF-8

alias ..="cd .."
alias which="type -path"
alias where="type -all"
alias ll="ls -l --color=auto"
alias l="ls -a --color=auto"
alias rm="rm -i"
alias mv="mv -i"
alias cp="cp -i"
alias la="ls -la --color=auto"
alias ls="ls --color=auto"
alias grep="grep --colour=auto"
# This is very KNOPPIX-specific
alias su="sudo su"
umask 022

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but data is still displayed on the console with lots of "?"
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How can I debug/troubleshoot those encoding/utf-8 console issues?
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Thank you
lbrtchx

[Albretch Mueller]

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Sorry that I have repeatedly posted the same messages, but for some weird reason my posts don't seem to get to your servers, I even got the following error:
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http://forum.lxde.org/posting.php?mode=reply&f=8&t=1528

ERROR
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The following error was encountered:

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The system returned:

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Your cache administrator is webmaster.
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[maces]

@Albretch Mueller: fixed.

maces

[Marty Jack]

Troubleshooting anything to do with environment variables:

echo $LANG, or whatever variable is causing you trouble
printenv

Or, ask your distro for help. We do not control how they do startup.