UTF-8 problem

[James Wilkinson]

Bob Nielsen wrote:
> With UTF-8 locales in hoary, I get some weird displays in a text 
> console, particularly with ncurses-based programs.  Where lines should 
> be drawn on the screen, I instead get strange characters like 
> 
>  â¹¹¹¹
> 
> Is there some additional configuration I need to perform?  If I revert 
> to the ISO-8859-1 locale (en_US), the display is fine.

What sort of terminal are you using? Gnome terminal, a virtual console
(such as you'd get by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1), a remote connection, or an
honest-to-goodness dumb terminal? It sounds like it needs to be
reconfigured.

Is it an upgraded installation? Do you get the same problems if you add
a new test user account and login as that user?

James.

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