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Currently, I opened my gnome terminal and the default charset is gb2312.

How can set the default charset to utf8 in Gnome terminal?

I checked the preference setting but seemed not to find it.

Thanks for any help!

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Start it with the desired charset.

env LANG=xx_XX.utf8 gnome-terminal
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Simply right-click anywhere on the terminal and select Show Menubar and from the menu bar you select Terminal > Set Character Encoding > Unicode (UTF-8). At least this works using gnome-terminal 3.2.1.

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But it won't keep the change next time you opened it. – xiaohan2012 Jan 2 '12 at 13:03
Ok, but what's the output of locale? I think you need to set the systems locale to an UTF-8 variant e.g en_US.UTF-8 in order to make it permanent. To list all enabled locales, run locale -a. To enable a locale, uncomment it in /etc/locale.gen and run locale-gen to update the list. – htor Jan 2 '12 at 14:53

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