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How can I check what encoding (ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 etc) my Terminal uses?

It shouldn't matter, but I am using Konsole on KDE3.5.

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  • What exact version of Konsole are you using?
    – Blue Peppers
    Aug 22, 2010 at 23:43
  • "uses" or "supports"? it should support any of those encodings.
    – user601
    Aug 23, 2010 at 0:06

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From a Unicode and UTF-8 FAQ for UNIX/Linux: You can get a list of all locales installed on your system (usually in /usr/lib/locale/) with the command locale -a. Set the environment variable LANG to the name of your preferred locale.

Konsole supports whatever your system supports - the important thing is that you export LANG in your shell so that the programs you run display their characters using the correct locale.

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Konsole supports the encodings which Qt knows how to convert to/from Unicode. It uses the QTextCodec class (see documentation which lists the supported encodings) which includes many but not necessarily all possible encodings which you may have installed on your system.

When you run Konsole, you can select (in the Advanced tab) an encoding from those which are tabulated in its runtime tables.

Illustration of Konsole's encoding selection

If you need an encoding which Konsole does not support, some people suggest that luit can be useful, e.g., in IBMgraphics.

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