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Re: strange "?" characters all over the screen in aptitude, mc and other ncurses programs



On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:20:11AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
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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.
interesting my sessions seem to go burko when I us the utf8 version, I usually 
end up setting LC_ALL='c'
> 
> Joe
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