On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Chris Lawrence wrote: > This one's a bit odd; Tim's locale is being detected as an ISO-8859-1 > locale (see the log), not UTF-8. I'd imagine spewing ISO-8859-1 to a > terminal that's expecting UTF-8 will make things explode rather in all > sorts of interesting ways, no matter what program you're using--I'd be > shocked if even "man" works right on this terminal, with its use of > extended hyphens and quotation marks.
Is the terminal necessarily expecting UTF8 (I know I wrote utf8 in my last sentence, but I'm not sure I meant it)? It's just a normal xterm without any of the fancy schmancy internationalisation stuff intentionally turned on. > Switching from en_AU to en_AU.UTF-8 should fix things; this may > require a dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales to establish the needed > locale and then a choice at gdm/kdm/whatever to change into the UTF-8 > locale. Manpages work fine when using ISO-8859-1, which has not been my experience in the past when trying to use utf8, and you end up with all these ugly characters over the screen. -- TimC Using top down development, you never have any working code. Using bottom up development, you never solve the problem. -- John Kelly in debian-user -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
