non-english characters in Terminal, Thunar, etc

[John W]

I found the issue - it was indeed not really UTF-8, as Yves-Alexis suggested.
They were files copied from an XP machine, using CP1252.

convmv solved the problem (great tool!)

Strange to me that xterm was displaying it correctly by default.
Lesson learned (:

-John

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:
> On sam, 2009-10-10 at 13:11 -0700, John W wrote:
>> I have tried setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8, but that doesn't fix anything.
>> In fact, it breaks xterm. Maybe I just have the wrong LANG setting
>> though?
>
> Set it *before* running Xfce. And make sure the chars are indeed valid
> UTF-8 and not some iso.
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Yves-Alexis
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