On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:47:21AM EST, Celejar wrote: > 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 Lenny [..] I took a look at the README files from unstable and now I can see all those Â, I counted one hundred of them. Not nearly as bad as README.es, README.fr, or README.fi, where there a thousands of invalid characters. Simple fix for the English version, in vim: :%s/Â/ /g Or use 'lynx -dump' to generate the text versions from the html files. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
