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

[Jostein Berntsen]

On 22.10.12,02:41, Roman Z. wrote:
> 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.
> 

I will try to update my Python install, thanks. 

Jostein