[plug] Annoyances

Adam Ashley adam_ashley at softhome.net
Wed Jun 16 09:02:45 WST 2004


On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 06:50 +1000, Onno Benschop wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 19:47, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > Onno Benschop wrote:
> > 
> > | I'm using gnome-terminal under Debian. When I run modconf, I get all
> > | manner of accented A's, E's and O's, rather than the pretty lines I need
> > | to see.
> > 
> > I would suspect that this is a UTF-8 issue.  I see funny accented
> > letters instead of arrows and lines and stuff when I use mutt over
> > Putty - PuTTY expects ISO-8859-1 characters but it's actually getting
> > UTF-8 ones.
> > 
> > On the other hand, I'm also using Debian with the same locale and
> > don't see accented letters.  (This is with xterm.  It looks much the
> > same in gnome-terminal.)  I do see funny little boxes in the top line
> > of the display though.
> 
> Ok, I also have funny little boxes in my xterm. And yes those are the
> ones I also get in gnome-terminal, alternated with all manner of crap
> and I don't see the modconf title. (I didn't know there was one until I
> launched xterm :-)
> 
> In addition. If I do man apt-get, I don't see the hyphen between the
> words using xterm for the first paragraph, but I do see that in
> gnome-terminal - there was a time when the - never showed up in man
> pages, very exciting trying to learn command line options - but that now
> seems to work.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 

run your commands as

LANG=C man apt-get

that normally fixes the problem for me on RH systems

Adam




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