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?