I have ran into an issue with Terminal, that it wont be able to display forexample åäö - 3 Swedish charcaters, for some reason i do beleve that Terminal have no UTF-8 Support. And i would strongly recommend to implent it. Or else only users with a EN/US Keyboard will be the only happy users ;)
That's a weird conclusion, esp. since a lot of people already use it all over the world and the documentation states that it supports UTF-8 (not to mention that it uses VTE and VTE clearly supports UTF-8). Your system (actually your account) is not configured properly. This is really a question for the mailinglist or the forum. Bugzilla is not for questions or misconfigured systems. But while we are here. If you are unable to type in swedish characters, your locale is probably messed up (or you don't even have locales for swedish or UTF-8). Try running (from another terminal window): env LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8 Terminal --disable-server If you see a message like this (process:14724): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library then your system does not support sv_SE.UTF-8. Otherwise you'll be able to type in swedish characters now (unless something else is also broken).
Okay, so it wasent a bug. By starting Terminal via env LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8 Terminal --disable-server gives me abillity to use åäö. However this feels like a very uncomfortable way of starting Terminal, i would prefer to beable to set this trough the configuration menu (A feature request)
Add LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8 (or if you want to keep the language english, but still be able to use non-english characters, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8) to your environment. When logging in via GDM or KDM, you can also select the locale settings there. This is in no way special to Terminal. The locale affects all applications (not even limited to desktop applications).