[Bug 56024] XKeepsCrashing spews UTF-8 on non-UTF-8 terminal

[Paul Sladen]

Public bug reported:

When X is failing to start, gdm transfers control to:

  /etc/gdm/XKeepsCrashing

which then displays helpful dialogues on a text-termainl.  The box-
drawing output used by '/bin/usr/fmt' spews UTF-8 output onto a terminal
that is not running in UTF-8 mode, causing ugliness that wraps around
the right-hand-side of the console and causes corruption.

** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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XKeepsCrashing spews UTF-8 on non-UTF-8 terminal
https://launchpad.net/bugs/56024