problems with diacritic characters in fedora8

[Jens Petersen]

Hi Natxo Asenjo,

> since fedora8 I have an awkward problem. In an xterm or console
> session all diacritic characters appear like this:
> http://www.asenjo.nl/Screenshot-xterm.png
> that is, they are replaced by blanks. In other applications like
> openoffice this is not a problem.

Sorry the screenshot doesn't help me much since I can't read Spanish - 
so I am not sure where the blanks are appearing...

> it is awkward because I am used to using console programs like mutt
> for my email, so this is something that I come across really often.

> LC_CTYPE="en_US"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> LC_TIME="en_US"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
> LC_PAPER="en_US"
> LC_NAME="en_US"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"

Are you intentionally not using UTF-8?

> I have changed the system locale to Spanish (Spain) but it does not
> help (I rebooted the system for the changes to take place).

Ok.

> Does anybody know where I could fix this? This has worked perfectly in
> fedora6 and fedora7, so I am a bit puzzled.

So is it just a display problem in terms?

Jens