UTF-8 problem in 8.0

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 02:38:32AM +0100, Ulrich Sp??rlein wrote:
> On Fri, 01.01.2010 at 15:47:36 -0800, Derek Kulinski wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > After installing FreeBSD 8.0 I noticed that some characters aren't
> > displayed correctly (it worked fine for 7.2).
> > 
> > Mainly the dash character is most noticeable (though it's possible
> > it's more of them).
> > 
> > Example:
> > env LANG=C man sh
> > env LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 man sh
> > env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man sh
> > 
> > The first command shows everything fine, the later two seem to show
> > some unprintable character in place of every dash (i.e. in the second
> > paragraph word "built-in", or the dashes that break up the words at
> > the end of the line)
> 
> me too, though I'm only setting LC_CTYPE to de_DE.UTF-8 and I don't
> always see it. It must be some combination of xterm/ssh and/or putty
> that breaks this.

Actually, I've just got en_NZ.UTF8, and I see it on the console as
well.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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