On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:55:21PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Aptitude appears to have some hardcoded dependencies on the locale. Given > this,
I don't understand this. > it really needs to force the locale before starting. I have to start it up > with LANG=C aptitude in order to keep the screen readable; otherwise I get > lots of nonsense characters. Do you have a screenshot for us? > In the long run, it should probably be properly UNICODE-ized. Aptitude is a normal program which uses only ANSI characters. All strings are provided by ordinary gettext calls which is a well establised standard. Does the terminal you used support UTF-8? If you use screen did you started it with option -U, ...? Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org