Re: Consolechars Question

[Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz>]

[Sorry for the late post.]
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:05:41AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:55:06AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > That isn't one of the options. Do you mean en_US.UTF-8?
> Yes.

Please be careful when pasting in the posts, it is hard to pick config
errors.

> > Ummm what is the output of:
> > apt-cache policy {kbd,console-data,console-setup,console-tools}
> 
> Interesting.  My output is identical to yours except for console-setup

Identical? Surely the http:// entry is different.

> which shows 1.28 is installed. Having never used apt-cache policy I read
> the man page.  From the entry I expected a file /etc/preferences.  This
> does not exist so I was unsure how to change console-setup.

> I had not yet run consolechars -d.  I did so and ran the  

Why run consolechars -d? 

> apt-cache policy {kbd,console-data,console-setup,console-tools}
> command again.  The output was unchanged but the characters used to
> indicate threading in mutt and the characters representing bullets in
> the output of man apt-cache were changed!

> Amusing, what?

It is amusing that you think it would.

What is the output of:
grep -v ^# /etc/console-tools/config

and:
locale

Also if you start mutt like
chrisb@box:~$ LANG=C mutt

You should see the symbols ok?

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Chris.
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