macOS Terminal stopped recognising Danish keyboard

[KasperOsterbye]

I believe it happened after the installation of the new Command Line Tools on macOS Sierra, version 8.2.

If I have a file with Danish characters it come out right if I cat, more or in other way lists it contents.

However, the danish keys (æøå) do not work in terminal - æ and å are ignored, and ø produces a "(arg: 8) " prompt.

The rest of the apps seems to work just fine. Any idea of where to start looking?

Best,

Kasper

 

[chown33]

First, there is an environment variable that can affect how command-line tools use text encodings. Post the output of this Terminal command:

printenv | sort

Second, if you copy and paste the characters that have problems, rather than pressing keys for them, are the pasted characters correct?

For example, enter this command in a Terminal window:

hexdump -C

It will await your input. Then press the problematic keys and press RETURN.

Next, paste in the problematic characters and press RETURN. You can type them in another app and copy/paste into Terminal, or you can copy from your original post and paste into Terminal.

Then press control-D (EOF), and finally copy and paste the complete output into a post here.


Please use CODE tags around the Terminal text you paste into posts here.

 

[KasperOsterbye]

Thanks chown33

To answer your questions.

sorted printenv gives:

Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.omSTbDdQUn/Render
DISPLAY=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.uDTp38bz8j/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
HOME=/Users/kasper
LANG=en_DK.utf8
LANGUAGE=en_DK.utf8
LC_ALL=en_DK.utf8
LOGNAME=kasper
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/CrossPack-AVR/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands:/Library/TeX/texbin
PWD=/Users/kasper
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHLVL=1
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.aw7jzKOozK/Listeners
TERM=xterm-256color
TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal
TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=388
TERM_SESSION_ID=46496D15-1EEA-4604-BB22-169CCCAB6116
TMPDIR=/var/folders/gt/l82_8jsd4wd8cvyqh23fcsb40000gr/T/
USER=kasper
XPC_FLAGS=0x0
XPC_SERVICE_NAME=0
_=/usr/bin/printenv
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F8:0x0:0x0

I was not able to type the "|" (which is alt-i on my keyboard), but I was able to paste the printenv | sort command.

Next - the paste of the æøå characters gives me:

$ hexdump -C
æøå
00000000  c3 a6 c3 b8 c3 a5 0a                              |.......|
00000007

Also - I should be able to type the | symbol - however typing "|" followed by return gives:

$ hexdump -C
^[i   
00000000  1b 69 0a                                          |.i.|
00000003

I got a bit curious on the __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING, and there is a file in my home directory with this contents:

$ cat .CFUserTextEncoding
0x0:0x0$

 

[KasperOsterbye]

Alas - the solution in the end turned out to be combination of two things:

• I had a .bash_profile setting the environment variables
• I had unchecked the "set locale environment" in the advanced settings of the terminal profiles.

 

[chown33]

Alas - the solution in the end turned out to be combination of two things:

• I had a .bash_profile setting the environment variables
• I had unchecked the "set locale environment" in the advanced settings of the terminal profiles.

Resolved?