Re: Accent chars instead of VGA graphics from Ubuntu system (terminal via ssh)
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 07:15:55AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Yeah, the subject is too short. I posted the following on the Ubuntu
> forums with no reply so I thought I'd try our group.
>
> Having just installed Mythbuntu 8.04.1 onto a recently procured
> computer, I'm doing tasks via ssh. I have several Debian Sid boxes and
> I've not run into this issue until I began using the Mythbuntu box.
>
> What I see are VGA style graphics characters replaced by accented
> alphabet letters. Here is a snapshot of Midnight Commander:
>
> http://n0nb.us/pix/snap4.jpg
I see.
> Ordinarily it appears as this on the rest of my machines:
>
> http://n0nb.us/pix/snap5.jpg
>
> While I'm inclined to think it's a terminal issue, I suppose it could
> be something else such as locale? Also, it's not just Midnight
> Commander as I saw the same thing with Aptitude.
>
> For the record I get the same strange characters when logging into the
> Mythbuntu box remotely from a Linux console on my Debian desktop
> machine.
What I see is charater encoding issue. Terminal does not understand
UTF-8 (That is Mythbuntu 8.04 problem) while it looks like you are
runing sid in en_US.UTF-8 or so.
Check encoding of both system.
Try work around problem using
$ mc -a
or
$ LANG=C mc -a
or something like this.
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