Re: Accent chars instead of VGA graphics from Ubuntu system (terminal via ssh)
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 06:05:29PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> [2008 Jul 30 16:34 -0500]:
> > Maybe my Sid
> > box should be default UTF8. I'm going to try that since the dialog
> > advises that it should be the default.
>
> That was, errr, interesting. Since I have locale-purge installed and
> it runs after packages are installed via Aptitude, it helpfully cleaned
> out the en_US.UTF-8 locale since I hadn't selected it back who know's
> when via the locales package. All kinds of weired and interesting
> effects occured once I allowed en_US.UTF-8 become the default. :-)
Somehow this message looks like reply to my posting on mutt while I see
no reason.....
Nate, you know that en_US locale means en_US.ISO-8859-1 locale
Enen if your transition from old ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 was not
smooth and was easier to stay with ISO-8859-1 does not gurantee easy
life for ever.
Basically, world is moving from C -> ISO-8859-1 -> UTF-8. C has place
to live for embedded system etc. But ISO-8859-1 will be deprecated
standard for system default.
> As a work around I've set en_US as my locale in my .bashrc and will
> wait until a number of pacakges get updated and the UTF locale gets
> restored before trying again. At least I think I'm on the right track.
System default of locale is not really set by .bashrc. That is only fro
program executed from BASH shell. Your terminal window program may be
running by the locale set by the PAM.
> I guess that some tools fall into the realm of "if you know what you're
> doing". ;-)
Yes. I should say "All tools fail eventually if you do not know what
you're doing". ;-)".
As for environment, start reading Debian Refrnce (debian-reference-en
paclaje in lenny) or
read it on line:
http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch09.en.html#thelocale
Osamu
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