liquidonline
December 24th, 2008, 05:38 AM
Hi all,
I'm fortunate to work in an environment where I was given the choice of O/S to install on my system. I installed ubuntu, but I'm running into a problem that greatly affects my work... and this is something that windows XP handles problem free.
It happens from time to time that I have to copy text from a client's email viewed through a web-based ticketing system and paste it into a prompt awaiting input in an ssh session. Living in a bilingual city, I often have to input text written in french, containing accents. When I copy/paste this into the terminal, it "appears" ok when I paste it, however, when the client winds up seeing the text that results, they get weird characters, or more commonly "blocks" instead of the letters with accents. I've added language support for canadian french, and even when set prior to opening up the terminal, or the web browser, the same thing happens. I've stopped short of changing the system language, as it forces too many other changes, not to mention it requires a session restart.
Does anyone have an idea how this quirk can be avoided, short of using windows, or some guidance as to where I need to look to find the root cause of this?
Thanks
I'm fortunate to work in an environment where I was given the choice of O/S to install on my system. I installed ubuntu, but I'm running into a problem that greatly affects my work... and this is something that windows XP handles problem free.
It happens from time to time that I have to copy text from a client's email viewed through a web-based ticketing system and paste it into a prompt awaiting input in an ssh session. Living in a bilingual city, I often have to input text written in french, containing accents. When I copy/paste this into the terminal, it "appears" ok when I paste it, however, when the client winds up seeing the text that results, they get weird characters, or more commonly "blocks" instead of the letters with accents. I've added language support for canadian french, and even when set prior to opening up the terminal, or the web browser, the same thing happens. I've stopped short of changing the system language, as it forces too many other changes, not to mention it requires a session restart.
Does anyone have an idea how this quirk can be avoided, short of using windows, or some guidance as to where I need to look to find the root cause of this?
Thanks