Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

[Michael Spang <mike@midgard.no-ip.org>]

kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:

> Jan C. Nordholz wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:13:13PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > Using Debian Sid, I have apt-listchanges package installed which 
> > > displays the changelog before installing the packages. However, in 
> > > this changelog, The names are not displayed properly. For example 
> > > the upgrade xpad package shows
> > >
> > > xpad (2.9-2) unstable; urgency=low
> > >
> > > * Fix broken entries in changelog
> > > * Bump standards version, no changes
> > > * Fix clean target to clean po/
> > >
> > > -- S<C3><B8>ren Boll Overgaard <boll@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Aug 2005 
> > > 10:30:11 +02
> > > 00
> > >
> > > The author name is displayed as S<C3><B8>ren .....
> > > How can I avoid this error?
> > >
> > >   
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > debian package changelogs are encoded in Unicode, where every character
> > with an ASCII value > 128 is represented as two bytes. To properly read
> > such files, invoke a terminal emulator in Unicode mode - e.g. xterm 
> > has a
> > wrapper script "uxterm" which does just that, provided you have 
> > configured
> > at least one UTF locale ('locale -a' shows all configured locales, and
> > 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' will let you re-choose).
> >  
> 1) which terminal emulator does apt-listchanges use by default? man 
> apt-listchanges says that it uses $PAGER by default. But I do not have 
> $PAGER set, so I wonder which terminal emulator it is using.
>
> 2) How do I know whether my locales are UTF compatible?
> I have
>
> kusumanchi% locale -a
> C
> POSIX
>
> Are they UTF compatible? or do I need to install new locales?
You have only one locale (with two names), and that is the only one 
which cant be removed. You should install the locales package and 
generate some locales. The encoding (ie UTF-8) follows the locale name 
in the list. Currently I have the en_US and en_US.UTF-8 locales generated.

HTH,
Michael Spang