Inconsistent charset behaviour

[Tom]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

While it's possible to add charsets beyond UTF-8 using the add/remove function, it's not possible to remove UTF-8 from the list, and as far as I can see, there's no way of setting a different default than the (to me) useless UTF-8 charset in gnome-terminal.

This is a problem that's twofold:

Ability to remove UTF-8 from the list (less important)

The ability to set another charset as default (highly important).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 23 17:41:02 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4)
Package: gnome-terminal 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[ooze (zoe-gauthier)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue should probably be sent to the upstream developers (GNOME) for needing to set a default encoding in a terminal profile. However I will mark this bug as 'Invalid' because I think it is critical for most users to use UTF-8 if only to interact with the file system.

[Tom (trezzer)]

Hi Philippe.

Thank you for your reply.

Does this mean I should submit it at gnome.org instead?

I don't do much interaction with local systems, so for me it's critical that I can set the default (or at least a profile and tie that to a bookmark) to match that of the remote systems I connect to. Forcing a behaviour is wrong, imho, when one size does not fit all.

Best regards,
Thomas Würgler

----- Original Message ----
From: Philippe Gauthier <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 5:46:05 AM
Subject: [Bug 487315] Re: Inconsistent charset behaviour

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. The issue should probably be sent to the upstream
developers (GNOME) for needing to set a default encoding in a terminal
profile. However I will mark this bug as 'Invalid' because I think it is
critical for most users to use UTF-8 if only to interact with the file
system.

** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Inconsistent charset behaviour
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Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

While it's possible to add charsets beyond UTF-8 using the add/remove function, it's not possible to remove UTF-8 from the list, and as far as I can see, there's no way of setting a different default than the (to me) useless UTF-8 charset in gnome-terminal.

This is a problem that's twofold:

Ability to remove UTF-8 from the list (less important)

The ability to set another charset as default (highly important).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 23 17:41:02 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4)
Package: gnome-terminal 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686