UTF-8 'ñÑ' cannot be written in the vscode terminal

[maravento]

I write in the terminal 'manana', but I can't write 'mañana', it doesn't allow it. If I try to insert the letter 'ñ' in the word 'manana' it is not allowed either.
manana

mañana

[vscodebot]

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• Unicode modified characters like ñ not treated like 1 character (#70456)

[maravento]

It is not in a text. it's in the terminal

[Tyriar]

What platform? If you're on Windows what shell is that?

[maravento]

ubuntu 18.04.3 x64

[Tyriar]

I can't reproduce, it's likely an environment config issue. I recommend looking into the setLocaleVariables setting and your $LANG env var

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[maravento]

i found workaround here #35550 (comment)

[Tyriar]

@maravento can you share the good $LANG value (with setLocaleVariables: false) and the bad one (where it's not set)?

[maravento]

local: echo $LANG
es_CO.UTF-8

[Tyriar]

@maravento is that the one that's working? If so what's the value when it's not working?

[maravento]

In Ubuntu 18.04.x x 64 LTS, with locales es_CO.UTF-8:

When check the box terminal.integrated.setLocaleVariables And I press 'ñ' on the terminal, the out is '(arg: 1)' (close and open first)

When uncheck the box terminal.integrated.setLocaleVariables And I press 'ñ or Ñ' on the terminal, the out is 'ñÑ' (close and open first)

[Tyriar]

It's probably setting the $LANG to "es_ES.UTF-8" when setLocaleVariables is true which doesn't seem to want to let you type. We should probably make the default for setLocaleVariables "auto" and only set it if $LANG does not end in ".UTF-8".

/cc @jerch

[maravento]

The same happens: in 'Workspace' and in 'User' too (only tested in Ubuntu 18.04.3 x64 es_CO.UTF-8)

[Tyriar]

Verify that terminal.integrated.detectLocale works on Linux or macOS as described in its setting description. echo $LANG in the terminal to verify the values, its eventual value depends on:

• The value of the setting
• What $LANG is set in Code's enironment
• The display language of VS Code (change using Configure Display Language command)

[maravento]

Why do you close the ticket if the problem is still there, without solution?

[Tyriar]

@maravento because you have a workaround in #80072 (comment) and the fix is to not do this in your case which will be included in the next release.

[maravento]

@Tyriar Ok. Thanks