Trying to fix xterm UTF8 encoding

This makes it slightly better but doesn't seem to totally fix it. Every time I
open a terminal, I have to ctrl+right-click and select "UTF-8 Encoding". Not
sure how to make this setting persistent.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/common.nix b/common.nix
index b0af3b8..e872492 100644
--- a/common.nix
+++ b/common.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ in
       PATH = "${homedir}/bin:${homedir}/.cabal/bin:${homedir}/.local/bin:$PATH";
       PAGER = "less";
       LEDGER_FILE = "${homedir}/.hledger.journal";
+      XTERM_LOCALE = "en_US.UTF-8";
     };
     keyboard.options = [ "caps:ctrl_modifier" ];
     file = {
diff --git a/linux.nix b/linux.nix
index 5934f7d..c7b2cce 100644
--- a/linux.nix
+++ b/linux.nix
@@ -9,11 +9,12 @@ in
 
   xresources = {
     properties = {
-      "XTerm*font" = "*-fixed-*-*-*-*-*";
-      "XTerm*faceName" = "mononoki";
+      "XTerm*font" = "-*-terminus-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1";
+      "XTerm*faceName" = "Terminus";
       "XTerm*faceSize" = "10";
       "XTerm*termName" = "xterm-256color";
       "XTerm*metaSendsEscape" = true;
+      "XTerm*utf8" = true;
     };
     extraConfig = builtins.readFile(solarized-xresources + "/Xresources.light");
   };