[CentOS] XFCE-Terminal can't display latin1 encoding
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr
Wed Feb 13 18:38:11 UTC 2008
Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Much of my work consists in connecting to the MySQL monitor on our
> public library database server and working in it. Until recently, I've
> been using either Gnome-Terminal in GNOME, or Konsole in KDE. Since all
> the systems, both server and clients, default to fr_FR.UTF-8, and MySQL
> uses a default latin1 charset, I usually switch the displayed charset
> within Gnome-Terminal or Konsole.
>
> I'm actually converting most of the desktops to XFCE, since it's my
> preferred desktop environment. Unfortunately, XFCE's Terminal
> application doesn't seen to offer the opportunity to switch to
> displaying an ISO-8859-1 (or ISO-8859-15) charset. Is there any other
> way to achieve that?
>
> Right now, all my french characters in the MySQL console appear as
> inverted question marks. Which leaves me with two more inverted question
> marks in my eyes :oD
>
> Any suggestions?
use gnome-terminal in XFCE?
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