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



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