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Date:      Thu, 23 Jul 2015 03:37:18 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a couple of minor but annoying issues: mate-terminal and firefox
Message-ID:  <20150723033718.3539c5be.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <20150722181114.Horde.CZ2ks0U4JAR-nKAr2SXroZz@mail.parts-unknown.org>
References:  <20150722181114.Horde.CZ2ks0U4JAR-nKAr2SXroZz@mail.parts-unknown.org>

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On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 18:11:14 -0700, David Benfell wrote:
> First, mate-terminal keeps coming up with a default encoding of ASCII.  
> I want UTF-8. Desperately. The menu option is there and works, but the  
> default is wrong. I don't ever want ASCII. I always want UTF-8. Having  
> to remember to change this every single time is annoying.

Set the environmental variables LC_ALL, maybe LANG, and MM_CHARSET
to "en_US.UTF-8". You can do that via your ~/.cshrc or ~/.login_conf.



> Second, control-K in Firefox is supposed to be a shortcut to the  
> search text field. This is working much less reliably than before.  
> Again, I haven't a clue--and can't find one--on how to make this  
> behavior more consistent.

What happened to Ctrl+F?



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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