UTF-8 problem in 8.0

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Sun Jan 3 04:41:05 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 07:37:15PM -0800, Derek Kulinski wrote:
> Hello Jonathan,
> 
> Saturday, January 2, 2010, 7:28:07 PM, you wrote:
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Put en_NZ.UTF-8 (with the dash), if you set an invalid value it
> switches to default.

Sorry. I actually meant that if I had en_NZ.UTF-8 on the console, some
man pages' characters are mangled as well. If it uses the default of C,
everything is fine.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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