Re: Characters: ââ Plagueing system

[Anthony Hawkes <ahawkes@debserv.boxzen.com>]

Anthony Hawkes wrote:
> CJ van den Berg wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 08:50:25PM +0800, Anthony Hawkes wrote:
> >  
> > > Anyone have any idea why manuals and for example pstree show the 
> > > follow weird characters: ââ
> > >
> > > Heres a copy of the output of pstree:
> > > initââ¬âacpid
> > >     ââapache2âââ10*[apache2]
> > >     ââarchived.pl
> > >     ââatd
> > >     ââclamd
> > >     ââcourierloggerâââauthdaemondâââ5*[authdaemond]
> > >
> > > Its hard to figure out where issues like this come from because a 
> > > google search returns results for aa and not ââ
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated, cheers guys.
> > >     
> >
> > It sounds like your terminal emulator is running with LANG=C and your 
> > shell
> > is running with LANG=xx_XX.utf-8 or some other similar locale mixup.
> >
> > i.e. The ââ characters are utf-8 codes for the line drawing symbols
> > interpreted as plain ASCII.
> >
> > Try this to see it happening:
> >
> > LANG=C xterm -e "LANG=en_US.utf-8 pstree; read"
> >
> > To fix this, make sure that LANG is set the same for both shell and
> > terminal.
> >
> >   
> This is through the main shell and via SSH not through a Term Emu

Set encoding to   en_AU.ISO-8859-1... this seems to of resolved the problem.