Re: [Ranger-users] PReview utf-8 files

[Roman Z.]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:40:07PM +0200, Jostein Berntsen wrote:
> On 21.10.12,22:14, Roman Z. wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 09:38:47PM +0200, Jostein Berntsen wrote:
> > > On 15.10.12,20:06, Jostein Berntsen wrote:
> > > > When previewing text files with Scandinavian UTF-8 characters like "æ, 
> > > > ø, å"
> > > > these are not displayed correctly. Is there a setting for this 
> > > > somewhere?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Is there more information on this somewhere?
> > > 
> > > Jostein
> > 
> > It works for me.  Can you give more information on this?  What's your
> > operating system, locale, ranger version, terminal?  What does it look
> > like?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Here is the information:
> 
> openSUSE 11.4 "Celadon" 
> ranger-git based on ranger 1.5.5
> LANG=no_NO.UTF-8
> Terminal is screen in yakuake.
> 
> Looks like:
> 
> ,MILEPM-FLER; where it should MILEPÆLER
> ,Aktiviteter-MM-xter; where it should be ,Aktiviteter-Møter
> 
> 
> Jostein

It appears that your python's unicode support is broken.

To quote myself from https://github.com/hut/ranger/issues/16 :
> Usually you see characters like this when python is not compiled with
> unicode/wide character support. If you have gentoo, recompile it with
> USE='wide-unicode'. On other distros, you could try reinstalling it or
> using another python version, like python2.7 instead of python3.1 and
> hope it's compiled properly.

hut