Re: Unreadable characters in aterm and rxvt
On 9/22/07, Mike Polyakov <mike.polyakov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have a weird behavior when viewing man pages in aterm or rxvt. ...
> > > Some of the lines run off the page
> > > on the right and continue at the beginning of the next line (lines are
> > > not neatly formatted in fixed width column). Also there are characters
> > > which look like rectangles with dashed border...
>
> > My first thought is encoding issues. What is the output of "locale"?
> > Possibly related - Do you use plain rxvt or urxvt aka rxvt-unicode?
>
> Hi,
>
> The outputs are as following:
>
> $ locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
<snip>
> Thanks.
> -Mike
I am not sure I am on the right track, but I am thinking maybe you
previously used a different language encoding, such as iso-8859-1,
instead of UTF-8 (I am not sure what Sarge defaulted to). Do you
have any idea if this is the case?
In any case, my understanding is that aterm and (plain) rxvt do not
handle Unicode (UTF-8) well.
The Freshmeat aterm site says:
> by Sasha Vasko - Aug 2nd 2007 10:08:16
>
> Thank you all for many years of support of aterm - it was fun.
>
> aterm 1.0.1 is probably the very last release of aterm.
> Everyone should start using rxvt-unicode as it is much more
> up-to-date and handles unicode realy well. All of the aterm's
> visual features will be and already are ported into rxvt-unicode,
> and I personally will work on rxvt-unicode exclusively from now on.
So my advise would be to install "rxvt-unicode" or "rxvt-unicode-lite"
or "rxvt-unicode-ml" (multilingual), depending on your needs. If it
displays the man pages correctly, then encoding was the problem,
and you can use urxvt instead of aterm or rxvt.
Let me know if this works. Otherwise, we can look at other possibilities.
Cheers,
Kelly
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