How to configure the UTF-8 environment?

[marat]

The goal is to have UTF-8 file names, especially for MP3 files :). I added utf8 segment to the list of languages in knoppix-autoconfig with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and CHARSET=UTF-8, but results are mixed: Konqueror displays file names correctly, but konsole doesn't, while xterm do. Is it possible to make konsole display proper characters instead of squares (changing the font does not seem to help), or should I switch to xterm? KDE taskbar also doesn't display UTF-8 characters at all, can it be fixed?

XMMS started to display proper characters in songs list and main window after specifying the good font group, but without selecting the font grouping option (first on on a Fonts page) since it brakes everything.

[fla]

Try in a console:

dpkg-reconfigure locales

Check only the languages you need. Click OK ;)




The goal is to have UTF-8 file names, especially for MP3 files :). I added utf8 segment to the list of languages in knoppix-autoconfig with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and CHARSET=UTF-8, but results are mixed: Konqueror displays file names correctly, but konsole doesn't, while xterm do. Is it possible to make konsole display proper characters instead of squares (changing the font does not seem to help), or should I switch to xterm? KDE taskbar also doesn't display UTF-8 characters at all, can it be fixed?

XMMS started to display proper characters in songs list and main window after specifying the good font group, but without selecting the font grouping option (first on on a Fonts page) since it brakes everything.

[marat]

Try in a console:

dpkg-reconfigure locales

Check only the languages you need. Click OK ;)
Unfortunately it didn't help much, I tried to select languages I need and deselect those I don't need, but File Open window of XMMS still displays file names in ISO-8859-1, and taskbar still doesn't display non-ASCII characters at all, i.e. nothing has changed (yes, I did click OK and even rebooted :)).

As for konsole finally I managed to display proper characters instead of squares. It takes picking Font - Unicode and Font - Custom... in a random order and dancing under the moon until the desired result is reached. Most fonts display japanese characters correctly, but truncate end of cyrillic characters; one displaying both kinds right is "Console".

So now what can I do with "File Open" dialog?

[marat]

Ghm, even SuSE does not support this, so solution is to use different frontend like amarok.