Terminal messed up.

[Erik Bågfors]

Actually, ubuntu almost uses utf8.  gedit for example saves in utf8 by
default.  This is inconsistent in my opionion.

Regards,
Erik

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:41:57 +0200, Martin Pitt
<martin.pitt at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi George!
> 
> On 2004-09-28 22:45 -0700, George Farris wrote:
> > Well for some reason my terminal is all messed up and the ~ key on the
> > keyboard doesn't work anymore.  Rebooting into Fedora solves it:-(
> > Here is a pic: http://owl.cc.mala.bc.ca/~george/term.jpg
> >
> > Mc displays fine on the local machine but when I ssh into another
> > machine it looks like the above.
> >
> > Did we have a bad package in one of the upgrades?
> 
> I think this is an encoding problem. One of the machines is probably
> using Unicode (UTF-8), whereas the other doesn't. Since Warty comes
> with non-Unicode by default, you should probably switch to unicode on
> Warty as well. For me this works perfectly. Just do the command
> 
>   sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
> 
> in a terminal, choose a locale ending in .UTF-8 and select it as a
> default. After the next reboot, your system uses unicode.
> 
> Please note that Ubuntu's mc does not play very well with Unicode;
> IIRC Fedora has some patches which improve that. But it should
> definitively look better than your screenshot (I'm using mc myself and
> I see fewer glitches).
> 
> Martin
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