On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:13:13PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Using Debian Sid, I have apt-listchanges package installed which > displays the changelog before installing the packages. However, in this > changelog, The names are not displayed properly. For example the upgrade > xpad package shows > > xpad (2.9-2) unstable; urgency=low > > * Fix broken entries in changelog > * Bump standards version, no changes > * Fix clean target to clean po/ > > -- S<C3><B8>ren Boll Overgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 28 Aug 2005 > 10:30:11 +02 > 00 > > The author name is displayed as S<C3><B8>ren ..... > How can I avoid this error? > Hi,
debian package changelogs are encoded in Unicode, where every character
with an ASCII value > 128 is represented as two bytes. To properly read
such files, invoke a terminal emulator in Unicode mode - e.g. xterm has a
wrapper script "uxterm" which does just that, provided you have configured
at least one UTF locale ('locale -a' shows all configured locales, and
'dpkg-reconfigure locales' will let you re-choose).
HTH,
Jan
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