Re: aptitude misconfigure?

[Jape Person <japers@comcast.net>]

On 10/26/2013 11:09 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:19:32AM -0400, Jape Person wrote:
> > On 10/26/2013 01:18 AM, Glenn English wrote:
> > > There are several Debian machines around, and some of them do an odd thing in Aptitude:
> > >
> > >          lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk
> > >          xReally quit Aptitude?x
> > >          x  [ Yes ]    [ No ]  x
> > >          mqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj
> > >
> > > and others don't.
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me what I did to make some of them do that to their ncurses boxes?
> > >
> > > Aptitude is the only place I've seen this (yet), and I've played with locales and googled and looked at man pages -- no joy. It has something to do with the VT-100 'graphics' chars, I think, but I can't figure out how to fix it...
> > >
> > > TIA
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Check the Preferences dialog in aptitude. This feature is controlled
> > by the item:
> >
> > [] Prompt for confirmation at exit
>
> LOL, I believe he is referring to the strange characters!

OIC. I guess I am the strange character in this case.

The term "locales" should have been a hint.

And I thought I had a chance to be useful -- as something other than 
comic relief, I mean.