[SOLVED]Special characters not working on terminal

Question

Hi everybody, my problem here is that when i log in from tty i can see characters like áéíóúñ and so, but when i start a terminal in E17, i can't see them. I just see diamonds with ? or just the ?.
Here's my output of locale and locale -a
Yes, Master earth? > 
locale
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME=es_US
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=
locale -a
C
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
es_SV
es_SV.iso88591
es_SV.utf8
POSIX
PD: I use Sakura as my main terminal, but also UXterm and Xterm
Any ideas?
thanks!
TheEdward
Last edited by TheEdwardRCT (2012-12-19 23:44:48)

Answer 1

Oh I see, you don't use setfont to set an X terminal's font.
Edit: I realized that answer was a bit sparse.  It depends on the terminal in how you set the font.  But you should know that the fonts that X uses are not the same as teh fonts that the console/tty use.  There are a number of wiki pages dedicated to fonts (inluding one appropriately titled "Fonts").  When in doubt, use the wiki.  If that fails, come ask here.
Last edited by WonderWoofy (2012-12-18 05:23:01)