CentOS - Feb 2008 - XFCE-Terminal can't display latin1 encoding

Hi,

Much of my work consists in connecting to the MySQL monitor on our 
public library database server and working in it. Until recently, I've 
been using either Gnome-Terminal in GNOME, or Konsole in KDE. Since all 
the systems, both server and clients, default to fr_FR.UTF-8, and MySQL 
uses a default latin1 charset, I usually switch the displayed charset 
within Gnome-Terminal or Konsole.

I'm actually converting most of the desktops to XFCE, since it's my 
preferred desktop environment. Unfortunately, XFCE's Terminal 
application doesn't seen to offer the opportunity to switch to 
displaying an ISO-8859-1 (or ISO-8859-15) charset. Is there any other 
way to achieve that?

Right now, all my french characters in the MySQL console appear as 
inverted question marks. Which leaves me with two more inverted question 
marks in my eyes :oD

Any suggestions?

Niki

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Much of my work consists in connecting to the MySQL monitor on our 
> public library database server and working in it. Until recently, I've 
> been using either Gnome-Terminal in GNOME, or Konsole in KDE. Since all 
> the systems, both server and clients, default to fr_FR.UTF-8, and MySQL 
> uses a default latin1 charset, I usually switch the displayed charset 
> within Gnome-Terminal or Konsole.
> 
> I'm actually converting most of the desktops to XFCE, since it's my
> preferred desktop environment. Unfortunately, XFCE's Terminal 
> application doesn't seen to offer the opportunity to switch to 
> displaying an ISO-8859-1 (or ISO-8859-15) charset. Is there any other 
> way to achieve that?
> 
> Right now, all my french characters in the MySQL console appear as 
> inverted question marks. Which leaves me with two more inverted question 
> marks in my eyes :oD
> 
> Any suggestions?
use gnome-terminal in XFCE?

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Much of my work consists in connecting to the MySQL monitor on our 
> public library database server and working in it. Until 
> recently, I've 
> been using either Gnome-Terminal in GNOME, or Konsole in KDE. 
> Since all 
> the systems, both server and clients, default to fr_FR.UTF-8, 
> and MySQL 
> uses a default latin1 charset, I usually switch the displayed charset 
> within Gnome-Terminal or Konsole.
> 
> I'm actually converting most of the desktops to XFCE, since it's my
> preferred desktop environment. Unfortunately, XFCE's Terminal 
> application doesn't seen to offer the opportunity to switch to 
> displaying an ISO-8859-1 (or ISO-8859-15) charset. Is there any other 
> way to achieve that?
> 
> Right now, all my french characters in the MySQL console appear as 
> inverted question marks. Which leaves me with two more 
> inverted question 
> marks in my eyes :oD
> 
> Any suggestions?
It may be as simple as choosing a unicode font. I don't know if
you can choose what font to use, but if so pick one that supports
the unicode character set and set the language in your bashrc or
whatever.

There is also good ole 'xterm' and I saw an app called
'Terminal' in
extras, maybe that can work for you? I know xterm will be a PITA to
setup correctly, but it has options to cover just about every
scenario, find the options that work for you and then xset them.

-Ross

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