[SOLVED] Finch and special characters?

EDIT: Solved it by setting my SSH clients to send the locale at connect. Found out that locals were fine on server and on all computers but it changed local to POSIX when I ssh'd into the server. Easy fix to just set the ssh.conf to send LOCALE on connect and sshd to accept it.
Hi everyone!
Today I have been playing around a bit with my torrent/fileserver after I bought a new router. After I have changed some configs I can't get special characters to work in finch, like åäö.
Finch works fine with special characters on my desktop and laptop (also running archlinux) but not on the server. I usually run a screen with Finch 24/7 on the server, wich I can ssh to, that's why I want it to work there, too .
I have tried both en_US.utf8 and sv_SE.utf8 as locals. Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this? It worked before I started messing around but I can't understand what I have changed... Only thing is that I'm now using netcfg instead of setting ip in rc.conf, but it seems to be irrelevant...
Thanks for answering!
Here is my rc.conf:
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
# LOCALIZATION
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result
# in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization)
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
LOCALE="sv_SE.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Stockholm"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
# HARDWARE
# MOD_AUTOLOAD: Allow autoloading of modules at boot and when needed
# MOD_BLACKLIST: Prevent udev from loading these modules
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist.
# NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=()
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"
# NETWORKING
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
HOSTNAME="servzor"
# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
# - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
# - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
# DHCP: Set your interface to "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
# Wireless: See network profiles below
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up. These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
# - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
# - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
# This now requires the netcfg package
NETWORKS=(main)
# DAEMONS
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng net-profiles netfs crond sshd acpi)
Last edited by Ginux (2010-04-03 11:17:12)

Since you're apparently using utf-8 for editing, your setting for inputenc should reflect that:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
I tried your sample with this and it worked here.
EDIT: explanation: inputenc package is there to convert a (supported) outside encoding (eg. utf-8, latin1, cp1250, il2, ... many many) into the internal tex encoding, so that tex assigns appropriate glyphs to appropriate letters coming in from your file.
Last edited by bender02 (2008-11-04 23:36:03)

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