fonts and characters

[Sean Bruno]

On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 07:42 -0800, Sean Bruno wrote:
> I note that I have somehow failed to install or configure my system so
> that my terminal does not render characters outside of my alphabet at
> all.
> 
> Typically, I run my IRC sessions in tmux inside a xfce-terminal, but I'm
> not sure how to get proper rendering of characters for other alphabets
> (cyrillic, kanji, etc).  Is this a trivial mistake on my part or is
> something slightly more interesting going on?
> 
> sean
> 
> p.s. firefox renders other alphabets (for the most part) just fine.

Huh ... setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 totally fixes this.  No idea why its
not set but default though.

sean