On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:07:21PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 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
It wasn't overheating, it was UTF-8. The command to fix the problem is
'dpkg-reconfigure locales', and (for English) to go back to ascii is en_US.
Found the command in the file /etc/locale.gen
HTH
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