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Title: [SOLVED] UTF-8 in console
Post by: Scampada on July 06, 2015, 04:22:51 PM

Is it possible to get UTF-8 working in CLI mode in TC?
I thought that UTF is supported by default by TC, didn't pay attention to this before. Looks like I was wrong.

If it's impossible, which terminal should I use in Xvesa that is supporting UTF and isn't as big and clumsy as Windows?

Title: Re: UTF-8 in console
Post by: Misalf on July 06, 2015, 04:41:55 PM

I use  urxvt.tcz .
But I couldn't get the configuration to be perfect.

This is what gets displayed if I hold Right-Alt and press numbers and letters in ATerm:

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??????{[]}\@???~??^|?????
Many keys don't output anything. Others produce just question marks.

This is what URxvt spits out:

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¹²³¼½¬{[]}\¸@ł?¶ŧ???øþ¨~æſðđŋħ?ĸł˝^?|»«¢???µ·??
Still some question marks. Also no € symbol. ):

Title: Re: UTF-8 in console
Post by: Misalf on July 06, 2015, 04:43:25 PM

Also you might want to check out the  lang=  boot code.

Title: Re: UTF-8 in console
Post by: Scampada on July 06, 2015, 04:50:52 PM

Quote

Also you might want to check out the  lang=  boot code.

That's it. I googled thoroughly and solved the problem doing

lang=en_US.utf angband

(for I do not wnat to change the boot codes themselves)

Title: Re: [SOLVED] UTF-8 in console
Post by: Misalf on July 06, 2015, 05:03:51 PM

I guess you meant

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LANG=en_US.UTF-8 angband
Right?

Title: Re: [SOLVED] UTF-8 in console
Post by: Scampada on July 06, 2015, 05:22:38 PM

Neither. It was en_US.utf8 :)

Title: Re: [SOLVED] UTF-8 in console
Post by: gordon64 on July 24, 2015, 06:11:04 AM

Hi

I hope you guys don't mind me replying to a solved post. But in case others search and find it....

Not all terminals are UTF-8 compliant, I found a quickish test that might help

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echo -e '\xe2\x82\xac\'
If compliant, with luck you should see the Euro symbol, some terminals may work with double quotes but i use single quote marks

lxterminal and gnome-terminal might be ideal candidates to use if you are having issues with the smaller terminals?

good luck

Title: Re: [SOLVED] UTF-8 in console
Post by: Misalf on July 24, 2015, 08:11:15 AM

Using URxvt, I can display the € (Euro) symbol using above command, but can not use the keyboard to type it, unless in Bash. I don't know enough about localization to solve this for myself. Using Bash might be a workaround.