Version reported by "Help / About" dialog is 0.2.12 (probably this is 0.4.3 or 0.4.4) cannot succesfully apply the locale settings for UTF-8 encoding (maybe others 8-bit too). My locale settings are: > locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 And these locale does not produce correct encoding output nor keyboard input for UTF-8 (no polish characters, some garbage at UTF chars). Everything works fine on gnome-terminal with this environment. For me this is a blocker bug that does not allow me to work on xfterm4. A lot of people have this problem with UTF-8 encoding on xfce-termina :-(
I'm having the same issue on terminal 0.4.8. (Gentoo) Entering or displaying non-ASCII chars (for example Umlauts ä, ö, ü etc.) will result in question marks (?) being displayed. The standard xterm terminal displays them correctly. Environment: locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=de_CH.UTF-8 LC_TIME=de_CH.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=de_CH.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=de_CH.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=de_CH.UTF-8 LC_NAME=de_CH.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=de_CH.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=de_CH.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=de_CH.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_CH.UTF-8 LC_ALL= locale -a C de_CH de_CH.iso88591 de_CH.utf8 en_US en_US.iso88591 en_US.utf8 fr_CH fr_CH.iso88591 fr_CH.utf8 it_CH it_CH.iso88591 it_CH.utf8 POSIX Terminal font: DejaVu Sans Mono Book
You can now set the encoding the preferences.