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Hi!

I was wondering on how to switch the character encoding in IT OS 2008 osso-xterm? When I try to ssh to non-UTF8 server the foreign characters (scandinavian ones in particular) are all squares.
 
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Originally Posted by locusf View Post
Hi!

I was wondering on how to switch the character encoding in IT OS 2008 osso-xterm? When I try to ssh to non-UTF8 server the foreign characters (scandinavian ones in particular) are all squares.
Did you solve this problem? I have now exactly this problem. I tried to remove the Encoding line in the desktop parameter file for osso-xterm but it did not work (do I have to reboot for this to take effect?).
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Hi!

There is a little progress on this. I have contacted Urho Konttori, the author of osso-xterm, to add a menu that can change character set on the fly. I havent tried to modify the .desktop file yet, gotta try that now.
 
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It is not just the character set that has to be changed. What is sent when you press the keys (e.g. åäö) has to be changed also.

I did not manage to set Encoding to something that worked. And I have run out of ideas. This is very annoing since I am reading my emails usning emacs running in a screen and not having working åäö is not acceptable.
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It is not just the character set that has to be changed. What is sent when you press the keys (e.g. åäö) has to be changed also.

I did not manage to set Encoding to something that worked. And I have run out of ideas. This is very annoing since I am reading my emails usning emacs running in a screen and not having working åäö is not acceptable.
Don't worry, I bet they have that fixed in the coming OS2008 version. I sure hope so, since my irssi session always looks terrible on finnish channel
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Got the same problem...irssi displays scandinavian characters oddly. Anyhow i think this was working in previous OS2007 when xterm was not built-in. At least don't remember having any probs with irssi.
 
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Got the same problem...irssi displays scandinavian characters oddly. Anyhow i think this was working in previous OS2007 when xterm was not built-in. At least don't remember having any probs with irssi.
I'll try to hack something up today, ie. a hacked version of osso-xterm.
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By doing

(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) ;; for N810
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8) ;; for N810

in my emacs I got the Swedish characters to work properly.
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What about us who don't use emacs lol .
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LocusF or Urho, any progress with this one? This bug annoys a lot or maybe it's just a matter of configuration...anyways it was working out-of-the-box with advanced osso-xterm.

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