On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:41:47PM +1030, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 09:50 +0000, Chris G wrote: > > ... but my gnome-terminals still obstinately claim a default of > > iso-8859-1. > > Just to cover all bases: Have you gone through the menus of the > gnome-terminals and changed the encoding? Perhaps changing to something > else, then trying going back again. > I found the reason, although I had "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" in my environment I also had LC_CTYPE=en_GB which sets it to the iso-8859.1 variant and gnome-terminal was using that. -- Chris Green