[CentOS] XFCE-Terminal can't display latin1 encoding

Wed Feb 13 18:38:11 UTC 2008
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr>


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?