fouro | # 1 | 2009-12-03, 08:39 | Report

I understand that there is a bug made for Xterm settings, but that's all the information I was able to dig up here or from Google.

Is there any way to change the character encoding in terminal? I'm using UTF-8 on my server (I'm a bit noob but managed to get it working anyway) and have some problems with ö and ä when using Irssi through SSH.

pillar | # 2 | 2009-12-03, 08:49 | Report

for me the problem was solved by starting screen with -U (or continuing with -drU)

fouro | # 3 | 2009-12-03, 09:14 | Report

Well, that worked nicely, thanks.

zlatko | # 4 | 2010-03-09, 12:01 | Report

There is a simple way of changing character encoding of XTerm. You have to be root and execute following:

# gconftool -s /apps/osso/xterm/encoding -t string UTF-8

In my case I wanted to replace UTF-8 with CP1251, so it looks like tis:

# gconftool -s /apps/osso/xterm/encoding -t string CP1251

You can change this way to desired encoding. To check current encoding use:

# gconftool -g /apps/osso/xterm/encoding