nano editor can üöä but not ß (locale = de_DE.UTF-8)

Dr. Seltsam · June 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM

I am using Xubuntu with xfce4-terminal, configured for utf-8. I use an ssh connection to Libreelec. The locale addon is installed and configured:

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LibreELEC:~ # locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

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The cat command shows text with right german 'Umlaute', including ß. I can also type ß in console and it shows right.

But when I open nano, I can only write äöü. When I type ß it shows =. Same with existing ß in text.

What am I missing? Version is LibreELEC (official): 12.0.2 (RPi2.arm)

**chewitt** · June 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM

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echo "set locale" > /storage/.nanorc

Run that command ^ then logout and back in and see if anything changed? .. NB: Suggested by ChatGPT so no idea if it works

Plan B .. CvH mglae any input [sic] ?

Dr. Seltsam · June 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM

done:

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LibreELEC:~ # cat ~/.nanorc
set locale

but:

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LibreELEC:~ # nano
Error in /storage/.nanorc on line 1: Unknown option: locale

Dr. Seltsam · June 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM

Kann es daran liegen:

LibreELEC:~ # nano -V
GNU nano, version 7.2
(C) 2023 the Free Software Foundation and various contributors
Compiled options: --disable-libmagic --disable-wrapping --disable-nls --disable-utf8

Allerdings sieht das bei CoreELEC auch so aus, und da gibt es das Problem nicht.

Im vi-Editor werden gar keine Umlaute akzeptiert - der schreibt nur Punkte. Tastaturlayout scheint zu stimmen - y und z entsprechen der deutschen Tastatur

**mglae** · June 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM

Please keep in mind this is an English forum.
nano: in the meantime we do use wchar ncurses but forgot to enable utf8 support.
vi - like other busybox applets - lack utf8 support.
With installing System Tools Addon you can use vim supporting utf8.

Dr. Seltsam · June 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM

Is this fixed in a nightly image?

LE 11.0.1 didn't have this problem. Is this a regression? I looked into the SYSTEM squashfs file system of LE 11 but could't find any *curses* lib. But it seems that it is used since 2021 ...