Weird characters in the linux consoles and lines not drawn correctly

[Felipe Figueiredo]

In 6.10 when I was using KDE I tried turning to ISO instead of UTF-8.
Turned out that even after a reboot many X apps still didn't like the
change, and showed weird characters instead of accented ones. I
imagined it seemed like UTF-8 was a hard-compiled option (which is
actuallly hard to believe, but it was the only thing that made sense
by then), so I stuck with UTF-8.

So, I didn't have the time to try using ISO-8859-1 full time with the
gnome environment. Does someone who actually need accented characters
for their text communications tried it in Feisty?




On 6/6/07, Chris Lemire <good_bye300 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Here is how I fixed the problem.
>
> http://satlug.org/pipermail/satlug/2007-June/048866.html
>
> Felipe Figueiredo <philsf79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On 6/6/07, sktsee wrote:
> > On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:18:36 -0700, Chris Lemire wrote:
> >
> > > Hello. I need some help with a problem in Feisty. When I launch midnight
> > > commander from a linux console such as tty5, it displays strange
> > > characters that it should not be displaying and does not display the
> > > lines correctly. How can it be fixed? I have tried changing the locale
> > > from en_US.UTF-8 to en_US.ISO-8859-1, but that did not make a
> > > difference.
> > >
> > > http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/9026/hpim1001bh8.jpg
> >
> >
> > Try "sudo /etc/init.d/console-setup reload" and see if that corrects the
> > problem.
> >
>
> Gee, this has long bothered me, thanks for this solution!
>
> However, how would a non-sudo user solve this? I just tested and this
> fix appears to be necessary everytime I switch from X to console. This
> happens to me, since Edgy, maybe even since Dapper. Is there a
> permantent fix?
>
> regards
> FF
>
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