On 2011-01-02 14:23:55 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Some characters are not displayed correctly on my monitor. The command > consolechars -d used to correct this problem but now it is unknown. > > Specifically the problem is typically with the arrows which mutt uses to > indicate the subject threads. Instead of lines and arrows the display > uses the letter a with a circumflex, the 3/4 character, the copywrite > symbol and another special symbol. > > In text occasionally odd symbols appear in the middle of words and in > place of numbers or bullets in lists of items.
I don't know the answer to where consolechars is hiding, but I wanted to give you something else to think about. The problem you are describing, where special characters, like line-drawing characters and bullets, have been replaced with weird characters, is the classic symptom of an application not supporting UTF-8. In this case, I think it is your terminal emulator which is not supporting UTF-8. What terminal emulator are you using? Try running mutt in xterm and see if the arrows improve. > Normally I just ignore all this as I know what is meant but occasionally > it results in some ambiguity. In the past when this was a problem I > used the command consolechars -d where the -d was to restore a default > character set. Since lang=en.US,UTF-8 has always been specified in > locale I have no idea what this default character set was, I only knew > it fixed the problem. > > Now the command is gone and apt-cache search consolechars returns > nothing. I don't know about consolechars. Hope that helps, Phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110103011339.ga4...@kasploosh.net
