fonts and characters

[Sean Bruno]

On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 09:06 -0800, Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 09:02 -0800, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > 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
> > 
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> 
> Oh gross.  Now the ncurses rendering in net-im/finch is screwed up. :-)
> More debugging required I guess.
> 
> sean
> 
> ___________

Full rebuild of all ports and everything is happy again.

1 question though, I see that LANG isn't set by default.  Should I know
where to modify my system to set en_US.UTF-8 or is it supposed to have
that turned on by default?

sean