[SOLVED]Something wrong with Locale, "ÅÖÄ" doesn't work in terminal.

Question

If you have this kind of problem stated above in the title, or similar, here is what I did...
Make sure you have correct locale, you'll need a UTF-8 one.
As stated in the install guide(or beginner's guide iirc) do the following:
Uncomment  one of the locales in "/etc/locale.gen", it doesn't have to be language pacific if you're only after using UTF-8 which provides more characters than normal ASCII.
then run "locale-gen". Make sure to set your "/etc/locale.conf" to "LANG=en_US-UTF8" of course you can choose whatever locale you want not just "en_US-UTF-8". After that make sure to reboot, it may also work with just log-out and log-in again, but I did not reboot and neither log-out and when back in. If it still doesn't work, run "locale" and "locale-a" if the output is "C" in each column just redo what I stated above, if it still not work, then you have to consult the manual, wiki and if you don't find the problem use a search-engine and if you still don't find answer here on the forums, the people here is really helpful!
Last edited by kalle97 (2012-10-01 17:46:16)

Answer 1

" Okey I uncommented sv_SE.utf8 in /etc/locale.gen ...
You're supposed to uncomment "sv_SV.UTF-8 UTF-8", then run locale-gen (with sudo), not "sv_SE.utf8".
That's what I did.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … ide#Locale
^ Except that you shouldn't use "echo" in this case. That command works well when you're logged in as root, but for sudo, not so much. Check the file with nano and you'll see that nothing changed. For sudo, use tee.
$ sudo tee /etc/locale.conf <<< "LANG=en_US.UTF-8"
Note: You don't necessarily need "sv_SV" for those characters to show up. Setting a "sv_SV" locale would make programs show up in Swedish instead of English - unless that's what you want. UTF-8 locales will cover those characters just fine (provided that the font from the terminal actually contains those glyphs, of course).
So you mean I can have en_US.UTF8 as locale but still write swedish letters? So the problem is with the font or somthing, not the locale?
If you still have problems, post the output of:
$ ls -l /etc/profile.d/locale.sh
$ curl sprunge.us -F sprunge=@/etc/locale.gen
$ curl sprunge.us -F sprunge=@/etc/locale.conf
$ locale -a
$ locale
Well, I did as the guide told about locale.conf, it doesn't seem to work, even if "locale" outputs correct info now, but I'll try with restarting the X server too, just in case.....