[Bug]: SERIOUS problem with accents

[denisdamata]

Current Behavior

After adding zsh, oh-my-zsh, oh-my-posh and fish to my Linux, among various other modifications, suddenly waveterm started having a hell of a problem with word accents that took me several hours! The directory address, which appears at the command prompt, gave problems where there was an accent and I couldn't even enter an accent from the command line, which almost made me abandon waveterm.

I've tried everything, I've uninstalled everything and reinstalled it several times and nothing, I've fiddled with encondig, made a lot of commands with locale and locales, export LC_ALL, LANG, edited .bashrc and .profile, changed the language of the entire computer several times, fiddled with /usr/local/share/i18n/SUPPORTED and many others directories line /etc/ and /opt/, UTF-8, utf8, installing waveterm without snap by other means using the .deb package and AppImage (not working anyway), install language-pack and I received messages with iconv.

The terminal displayed errors such as:

wave terminal iconv: illegal input sequence at position 83                                                                                           
Error converting string from ANSI_X3.4-1968 to UTF-8
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
warning: The LOCPATH variable is set to "/usr/lib/locale"
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory

Expected Behavior

en_US or en_US.UTF-8 supports accents and the terminal should display them and allow you to enter them on the command line without any problems how showed below:

Steps To Reproduce

I made a lot of modifications installing the zsh among other programmes to enrich my terminal, so I don't know where exactly it came from.

Wave Version

Client Version 0.11.0 (202501250008)

Platform

Linux

OS Version/Distribution

Ubuntu 24.10

Architecture

arm64

Anything else?

The solution to the problem is shown in the next post 🙂

Questionnaire

• I'm interested in fixing this myself but don't know where to start
• I would like to fix and I have a solution
• I don't have time to fix this right now, but maybe later

[denisdamata]

The error was in the folder /usr/lib/locale. Even if you make all kinds of changes to your computer, only the C.utf8 and locale-archive remains inside it:

dns@dns-pc:~$ ls /usr/lib/locale
C.utf8  locale-archive

The solution is the command below [UnixStackExchange]:

sudo locale-gen --purge --no-archive

With this command the folder is filled with other language files that support accents and special characters:

dns@dns-pc:~$ ls /usr/lib/locale/
C.utf8  en_AU.utf8  en_CA.utf8  en_GB.utf8  en_IE.utf8  en_IN  en_NZ.utf8  en_SG.utf8  en_ZA.utf8  en_ZW.utf8  pt_PT.utf8
en_AG   en_BW.utf8  en_DK.utf8  en_HK.utf8  en_IL       en_NG  en_PH.utf8  en_US.utf8  en_ZM       pt_BR.utf8