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I use fcitx as my IME. I can use it normally in most graphical applications, but I can't submit my selection when using a terminal. The candidates window would show up as I type, but after I press space, nothing is entered.

I also cannot copy text containing CJK characters or symbols like ►. If I copy hi ► and paste in the terminal, nothing is entered.

I tried this in both xterm and xfce4-terminal.

And I can't even turn IME on in text mode (Ctrl+Alt+F2).

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I found the problem. My original locale was blank. It must be set to xxx.UTF-8 for the terminals to support non-ASCII characters.

To enable Unicode support,

  1. Add a line to /etc/locale.gen that says en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
  2. Run locale-gen
  3. Add LANG=en_US.UTF-8 to /etc/locale.conf
  4. Reboot

Then you can check your new locale with locale.

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