Re: [Ranger-users] Viewer and special characters

[Jostein Berntsen]

On 24.07.11,13:42, Oliver Weidner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2011/7/22 Jostein Berntsen <address@hidden>:
> > In the Ranger preview window it seems like the Scandinavian æ, ø and å 
> > characters is not
> > displayed correctly. F.ex. a word like "Følge" is displayed as 
> > "FM-CM-8lge". My
> > locale is:
> >
> > LANG=no_NO.utf8
> > LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8
> > LC_NUMERIC="no_NO.utf8"
> > LC_TIME="no_NO.utf8"
> > LC_COLLATE=no_NO
> > LC_MONETARY="no_NO.utf8"
> > LC_MESSAGES=no_NO.UTF-8
> > LC_PAPER="no_NO.utf8"
> > LC_NAME="no_NO.utf8"
> > LC_ADDRESS="no_NO.utf8"
> > LC_TELEPHONE="no_NO.utf8"
> > LC_MEASUREMENT="no_NO.utf8"
> > LC_IDENTIFICATION="no_NO.utf8"
> > LC_ALL=
> 
> In my ranger "Følge" is displayed correctly both in preview (as simple
> text in a file) and as a filename.
> 
> My locale is:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> But if your locale is correct in other applications I doubt that this
> is the cause.
> 
> > Is there anything that can be done to correct this?
> 
> Are Scandinavian words displayed correctly in your terminal? (E.g.
> using "ls" showing a file named "Følge" and then using ranger to show
> it. The same with some text in a file).
> 
> Do you use screen? It can have massive impact on localization related 
> problems.
> 
> How is your ncurses compiled? Maybe without unicode support? The same
> is for screen (if you use it).
> 
> 

Thanks for your input. I tested outside screen and it was the same error then. I
also tested in another type of terminal, but that did not help either.
Scandinavian characters is displayed correctly in applications like mutt and
other console apps, but not in the output of a "tail -f" command. Will
investigate this some more. "ls Følge" gives the correct output.

Jostein