So, I decided to play with Tribblix, an Illumos fork. Seems really sweet! I noticed that the terminals do not seem to support Utf-8 encoding. I'm kind of Solaris dumb. Is that normal? Are there any Unicode encoding schemes that work, or plans to support them?

Check your LANG environment variable.

Check your LANG variable (as me properly).

@IndyJoenz ^^^^

danmcd: Thanks! I will check it out in a bit. (Sorry, not at the computer wit the VM at the moment)

There are *.UTF-8 variants, e.g. en_US.UTF-8 or C.UTF-8

I didn't see Utf-8 in the actual terminal configuration. Ie, in xfce4-terminal

Isn't is the one entry under Unicode?

ptribble: hey man. thanks for adding durdraw to tribblix :)

Thanks for writing it!

In xfce4-terminal, Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Encoding -> Unicode -> UTF-8

(I'm not sure why xfce4-terminal uses 646 by default, though.)

ptribble: Well durp. Now I see it. Unicode -> Utf-8. Thanks! I wonder why the block characters still don't show up as unicode blocks, though (in durdraw). They seem to be encoding wrong

Tried setting LANG=C.UTF-8, that didn't seem to fix it. Nice to see that 256 colors and animation work, though

what output is coming from locale command?