Re: strange "?" characters all over the screen in aptitude, mc and other ncurses programs
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Deboo ^ wrote:
> Using Debian Etch stable version without X. Everything works fine
> since installed a few days ago except that in aptitude or midnight
> commander or even dpkg-reconfigure screens, I get lots of question
> marks displayed with reverse video. What do I need so ncurses displays
> these correctly?
>
> I guess this has to do somethign with either whiptail or readline?
>
> Regards,
> Deboo
>
Usually this is a case of a character that is not defined in your
current language settings (locale). You can usually fix this by chosing
a UTF8 locale. dpkg-reconfigure locales should be able to fix your problem.
Joe
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