[Hardy] gnome-terminal current locale ANSI_X3.4-1968 not unicode using en-gb

[Caroline Ford]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Current Hardy (Alpha 3 +updates), en-gb locale

Gnome terminal 2.21.5

Terminal Menu -> Set Character Encoding

Option is set as current locale (ANSI_X3.4-1968) and not Unicode (UTF-8). This breaks the sending and displaying of £ signs which are displayed as ?.

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

Presume locale should be unicode too.

[Anders (andersja+launchpad-net)]

I have the same experience after upgrading to Hardy Alpha (latest): get an error message when logging in that en-gb is unavailable and that locale has been set to "default setting"

opening e.g. k3b, I get an error message saying that locale is ANSI_X3.4-1968, that this is unlikely set by myself and that I should ensure that locale is set correctly.

[Arthur Furlan (afurlan)]

I had the same problem on Hardy Alpha 4 using en_us.
I noted there's no locale entry on /etc/environment, so I added the LC_ALL entry in it and the problem was solved.

afurlan@einstein:~$ sudo echo 'LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"' >> /etc/environment

I don't know if this is the best way to solve the problem, but it works for me. :)

[Clément Léger (clem-vangelis)]

I have the same problem after a fresh install of hardy

[Stefan van der Walt (stefanv)]

I can also verify this problem after upgrading to hardy.

[Miek Gieben (miek)]

Same problem here. Fresh upgrade from feisty to hardy. My shell is zsh. My locale settings:
% locale -a
C
POSIX
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
nl_BE.utf8
nl_NL.utf8

% cat /etc/environment
LANGUAGE="en_US:en_GB:en"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"

Doing a `ssh localhost`:
% echo $LANGUAGE
en_US:en_GB:en

Creating a new gnome-terminal:
% echo $LANG
C

So there is a difference between logging in and creating a new terminal. Gnome-terminal is set to start a login shell.

The encoding in gnome-terminal falls back to ANSI, instead of UTF-8 :-(

[Miek Gieben (miek)]

For some (unknown) reason /etc/environment isn't sourced.

Btw the reason that gnome-terminal falls back to ANSI_X3.4-1968, is because:
% locale charmap

Returns it, if LANG=C.

% LANG=en_US.UTF-8 locale charmap
UTF-8

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

My gnome terminal is now okay and now has current locale set as UTF-8. It doesn't say en-gb anywhere, i don't know if it is supposed to.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

closing the bug then, thanks.