Re: weird characters
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:28:26PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote:
> Hi,
> My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), some of
> the characters in programs don't display right.
This doesn't sound like an overheating problem to me.
For one thing, the Mutt arrow problem happens to me too,
starting when I made UTF-8 English the default characterset.
I don't know how to fix it.
-- hendrik
> The worst ones are the
> arrows in threads in Mutt aren't arrows anymore, they're accented a's and
> boxes; and in all windowmanagers the program names in the titlebars and the
> writing on the blackbox slit, the letters are separated by @ signs. The
> only 2 things that I can think of that caused it are a) overheating
> (hopefully not), or b) broken UTF-8 support. Before I made UTF-8 English
> the default characterset, everything was fine. Now it's messed up.
>
> Anyway, my question is, how do I set i back to the ascii (i forget the
> number) charset? I forgot what command I used to change it in the first
> place. :(
>
> TIA.
>
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