From a14bc5f668f8e7591de87bc42ae311acc6da52ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Barton <alex@barton.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:16:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Enhance guessing if UTF-8 or ISO8859-1 encoding should be
 used

---
 sys/profile | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sys/profile b/sys/profile
index 8afa7ca..a2def55 100644
--- a/sys/profile
+++ b/sys/profile
@@ -14,8 +14,16 @@ export PROFILEREAD
 export UID
 
 # Indicates LC_CTYPE an UTF-8 terminal?
-[ -n "$LC_CTYPE" ] \
-	&& LC_encoding="${LC_CTYPE#*.}" || LC_encoding="ISO8859-1"
+if [ -n "$LC_CTYPE" ]; then
+	LC_encoding="${LC_CTYPE#*.}"
+else
+	case "$TERM" in
+		"xterm-"*)
+			LC_encoding="UTF-8"; ;;
+		*)
+			LC_encoding="ISO8859-1"
+	esac
+fi
 # Set locale if it is not set or doesn't contain a dot:
 [ "$LANG" = "${LANG#*.}" -a "$LANG" != "C" ] \
 	&& export LANG="${LANG:-de_DE}.${LC_encoding}"
-- 
2.39.2