How to get The Terminal to display " Å Ä Ö "(Bounty)20$

[jojopi]

You have had two problems:

links seems not to want to display accented letters literally, even on a correctly configured system, as Heater already confirmed. I do not know if that can be fixed or not. Just use elinks as RaTTuS suggested on day one.

LC_CTYPE="UTF-8" is an invalid setting (you cannot specify a character encoding without a language and country). It is also unnecessary, so find out where it is being set and get rid of it. LANG=whatever alone is fine.

Other than that it should not matter what locale you choose. Even the default can display the Swedish alphabet.

[Sakarias]

You have had two problems:

links seems not to want to display accented letters literally, even on a correctly configured system, as Heater already confirmed. I do not know if that can be fixed or not. Just use elinks as RaTTuS suggested on day one.

LC_CTYPE="UTF-8" is an invalid setting (you cannot specify a character encoding without a language and country). It is also unnecessary, so find out where it is being set and get rid of it. LANG=whatever alone is fine.

Other than that it should not matter what locale you choose. Even the default can display the Swedish alphabet.

hey, yeah at this point any Terminal browser will actually do. i've downloaded Elinks. same problem tho

[jojopi]

i've downloaded Elinks. same problem tho

For me it seems that links transliterates ä as "a:", whereas elinks (if the system is misconfigured for non-ascii) uses "ae". Not quite the same, but in both cases clearly intentional. What are you seeing?

Do you still have locale warnings on commands such as "perl -ex"? You must fix those first.

[Sakarias]

i've downloaded Elinks. same problem tho

For me it seems that links transliterates ä as "a:", whereas elinks (if the system is misconfigured for non-ascii) uses "ae". Not quite the same, but in both cases clearly intentional. What are you seeing?

Do you still have locale warnings on commands such as "perl -ex"? You must fix those first.

how do i fix those ? i'm quite new to linux

[Sakarias]

VNC stopped working. getting logged out of SSH. i might just buy something else soon, nothing seems to work

[Heater]

Sakarias,

I don't know if this has been asked or answered here already but when, in your opening post, you say your "terminal" is not displaying Å, Ä, Ö, etc did you mean a console window on a display attached to the Pi or a terminal windows displayed on another machine via ssh or whatever.

Because, I think that even if the Pi is configured correctly and displays these things properly it may be the remote terminal software that is getting it wrong. In which case it is the remote terminal that needs fixing not the Pi.

I have no idea if this is your problem or not and whether it applies to links in particular.

At this point I would create a new SD for the Pi and run it with a directly connected display to see if at least that can be configured to use your language setting correctly. If so, then try the remote ssh connection.

[RaTTuS]

I asked this at viewtopic.php?f=63&t=160699#p1041450
start with a keyboard and display attached to the RPi - get this how you want it to be
then move onto remote stuff if that is where you want to go /..


what is it you are really trying to achieve ?

[Sakarias]

I asked this at viewtopic.php?f=63&t=160699#p1041450
start with a keyboard and display attached to the RPi - get this how you want it to be
then move onto remote stuff if that is where you want to go /..


what is it you are really trying to achieve ?

what i really actually wanna achieve is to just get Å Ä Ö to display in Elinks. But Elinks use the terminal to function, and neither the terminal nor Elinks will display Å Ä Ö. it's a mess

[RaTTuS]

are you using this via putty or via the hdmi port / usb keybaord

[Sakarias]

are you using this via putty or via the hdmi port / usb keybaord

i am using SSH Mac -> RPI

and i'm using VNC.

neither of them works. the most important one would be VNC.

[RaTTuS]

pi 3 -
sudo apt-get install elinks

ssh via putty from my pc
elinks google.se
https://i.imgur.com/pfROS8s.png

[Sakarias]

pi 3 -
sudo apt-get install elinks

ssh via putty from my pc
elinks google.se
https://i.imgur.com/pfROS8s.png

haha wish my system looked like that....

i've got the Pi3 and Elinks. but yeah, got nothing.
is there any chans i can send you SSH information and you could take a look ? if you get it to work i'll send 20$ asap in btc

[RaTTuS]

are you using putty from your PC ?
you can send me login info if you want and I'll have a looksee

[dasmanul]

To quote myself:

Can you post the output of

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cat /etc/default/locale

?

I guess the main problem is that invalid default locales get set on your system as jojopi has already mentioned. So, the first step would be to locate where your locales actually get set and correct these.

[Sakarias]

To quote myself:

Can you post the output of

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cat /etc/default/locale

?

I guess the main problem is that invalid default locales get set on your system as jojopi has already mentioned. So, the first step would be to locate where your locales actually get set and correct these.

here's the locale:


#File generate by update-locale
LANG=se_NO

[Sakarias]

i do not know if this is to any help. but if i try to make a € Symbol in the terminal, it will spell out EUR

to make it clear. i'm using Elinks now.

Å Ä Ö display perfectly when i type in a document or use the Browser. the only place it does not work is in the terminal (LxTerminal and Elinks ( any other terminal based browser)
so the system itself can see and type Å Ä Ö.

i might just ask this instead.... is there any other way to view / interact with my HTML library instead of the terminal / a Browser (browser is so slow, Elinks is/was perfect except for the Å Ä Ö thing)

[dasmanul]

There is certainly a way to make this work. What does "locale -a" give you?

You could try to clear the locale settings for your current session with

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unset $(locale|cut -d"=" -f1|xargs echo)

After that, what is the output of "locale" and "locale -s"? Does "sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales work after that?

[rayjoh]

here's the locale:


#File generate by update-locale
LANG=se_NO

That is 'Northern Sami - NORWAY (NO) (se_NO)'

From other posts I suppose You want swedish. My /etc/default/locale is

LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8

What is in Your /etc/locale.gen?

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$ grep -v '^#'  /etc/locale.gen
en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
sv_SE ISO-8859-1
sv_SE.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15
sv_SE.UTF-8 UTF-8

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$locale
LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

[dasmanul]

I've had a look on Sakarias' Pi in the meantime and setting the locale setting like you showed does not fix the problem. However, setting LC_ALL to any UTF-8 encoding (I tried en_GB.utf8 and sv_SE.utf8) does. I have no clue why this is the case but for now, the console problem is fixed.

In a VNC session, the characters still don't display correctly. My suggestion is to put "LC_ALL=en_GB.utf8" in /etc/environment but I don't know whether that will fix it.

[RaTTuS]

I've had a look on Sakarias' Pi in the meantime and setting the locale setting like you showed does not fix the problem. However, setting LC_ALL to any UTF-8 encoding (I tried en_GB.utf8 and sv_SE.utf8) does. I have no clue why this is the case but for now, the console problem is fixed.

In a VNC session, the characters still don't display correctly. My suggestion is to put "LC_ALL=en_GB.utf8" in /etc/environment but I don't know whether that will fix it.

^ yes I was not able to test vnc from here
and I must admit I've not played with many locales