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fedor.chernolutsky
Asked: 2019-06-20 04:12:20 +0800 CST

Terminal cyrillic problem

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When I ran the xclock command in the terminal, I always received the following warning:

Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

I edited my ~/.bashrc file added the following line to the end:

export LC_ALL=C

And after that my console got weird behavior - I can delete initial characters describing the current user and the path where it is located.

It happens if I write something in Cyrillic. When I am trying to insert the first Cyrillic letter, all I wrote before replaced by � symbol. Then I can delete initial characters in my console continuing to press backspace button

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Why does the variable LC_ALL affect my terminal and how can I solve the problem with the warning xclock without harm to the terminal?

command-line cyrillic

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Everything turned out really as the user @egmont said.

    When variable LC_ALL defined as C it sets the encoding for all applications presumably to ASCII(in general, it is only important, that the encoding is changed to another, which does not support the Cyrillic)

    Initially LC_ALL hasn't been defined. If this is the case for you, you can check it out by typing:

    echo $LC_ALL

    The variable is empty if you will get an empty line.

    The xclock's warning as I understand appears because of this - due to the lack of explicitly specified encoding

    If you set LC_ALL to C as stated in most internet tips, you clearly specify the encoding. And this encoding is not UTF-8

    For problem solution you must explicitly specify the encoding which supports Cyrillic. You can do it by adding the next line to the end of your ~/.bashrc file:

    export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
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