After updating to the gnome-2.0.2 ebuild, national characters don't work. Instead of echoing the character, gnome-terminal echoes spaces. I've set the KEYMAP variable per the instructions in the announcment (I'm in Sweden). National characters work in xterm and in the regular console, as well as in other applications.
You may have a look to bug 7145 I had the same problem with a prior version of gnome (gnome-terminal). just check the LANG env.variables and/or the other locale settings (with the command locale)
I tried that, but that's not it. Also, it was the upgrade that broke it; national characters worked fine in gnome-terminal before. This bug is also in the gnome bugzilla, reported by spider@gentoo.org (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92307).
Explicitly setting the locale in gdm solved the problem. Seems like this behaviour changed in gnome 2.0.2. (Setting the locale via LANG didn't work).
please check http://www.gentoo.org/~spider/gnome-terminal.png
this doesn't work for Polish (export KEYMAP=pl) enviroment. all locales are set properly (pl_PL), but i still can't see national chars in the terminal, either after pressing right keys or opening mc/any document in Polish. but i can't really say it's broken in 2.0.2, since it did not work in gnome2 from the start, i think it's still marked as gnome bug...
it is documented a bug and still in the release notes. The only reason I mentioned it in the notes for our gnome 2.0.2 announcement is that "it works for me" And I thought it a good hint for people who might have it working better. theres a cvs branch for zvt that handles such things better, but I'm not about to start packaigng known broken (you know, cvs ) programs
*** Bug 7288 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Not a gentoo bug, closing.
