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Copy/pasting german strings in gnome-terminal

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Amarendra Godbole

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Nov 17, 2006, 4:08:17 AM11/17/06

Hi,

I have been using copy/paste technique when I have to enter a german
string (with umlauts and all) in gnome-terminal (v2.8.2) on Debian
sarge. This works perfectly fine, and the characters get reproduced
faithfully on the command line.

Today I tried the same thing on FreeBSD's gnome-terminal (v2.12.0),
and to my surprise, the copy/paste did not work. The locale as well as
gnome-terminal's encoding was properly set to UTF-8.

Can someone point me to the way this copy/paste works? Specifically,
why did it fail to paste on the gnome-terminal properly? I tried
searching the net, but could not come up with an explanation for this
behavior. The UTF-8 FAQ does not have much on this too.

Thanks in advance.

Best,
Amarendra

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