On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:25:55 -0500 Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:35:01PM EST, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I look at the Aptitude manual (/usr/share/aptitude/README) using > > 'less' (in Xfce4 Terminal), I get undisplayable characters, shown as > > '<C2>'. 'file' says that the charset is 'ISO-8859 English text', so I > > tried preceding the 'less' invocation by 'LESSCHARSET=iso8859', and > > those characters are then shown as undisplayable glyphs (some sort of > > '?' symbols). In Iceweasel and vi(m), they're shown as 'Â'. What's > > with this file, and why are these characters not displayed correctly in > > any application on my system? > > What version of debian? Sid > What locale are you using? ~$ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= > OK, here (debian lenny & locale set to en_US.UTF-8) with: > > $ iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 /usr/share/aptitude/README | less > $ vim -M /usr/share/aptitude/README > $ lynx /usr/share/aptitude/README Um, what results do you *get* with these commands? > Variable results with Seamonkey, ELinks, less, more, etc. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
