Since I mostly work with xterm I need to have a way, besides UTF, to display Greek characters on it. So, here is the setup I have been using on other operating systems, which works 100%: in ~/.bash_profile: LC_CTYPE=el_GR.iso88597 in ~/.Xdefaults: xterm*locale: true in /etc/locale.gen: en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 el_GR ISO-8859-7 el_GR.ISO-8859-7 ISO-8859-7 el_GR UTF-8 el_GR.UTF-8 UTF-8 Now, having the particular setup, I run a xterm. This is the first one I am running, thus, it shows up giving the following message: Warning: couldn't find charset data for locale el_GR.iso88597; using ISO 8859-1. Of course Greek characters are not displayed correctly, still. I close the xterm and try to run another one. I see a xterm flashing and disappearing. Now, if I try to run luit on its own, I get the same error message as before. I repeat, UTF is NOT the solution here. The previous setup works flawlessly on *BSDs and other Linux distros. Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:20:02 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.uoi.gr/mirror/OS/gentoo/ http://ftp.uoi.gr/mirror/OS/gentoo/ http://ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/mirrors/gentoo/ " MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 acpi alsa bitmap-fonts cli cups dlloader dts dvb dvd dvdread elibc_glibc esd fortran gpm iconv input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog kernel_linux libg++ mbox mmx mmxext mp3 msn nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre ppds pppd readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl symlink truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userland_GNU video_cards_nv win32codecs xorg xvid" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Suspect this is a dupe. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153624 ***
