[Linux-disciples] Weird characters in Gentoo terminals

[Dylan Thurston]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 01:08:29PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I assume it's trying to access some ASCII codepoint, not
> finding the appropriate glyph in some table, and
> displaying empty boxes instead. So where do I get the right
> set of glyphs?

These are not ASCII glyphs; the threading characters are beyond the
ASCII range.  They do exist in UniCode.  I suspect that the problem is
that your terminal is not properly interpreting the UTF-8 locale; note
that you see two characters where you ought to see just one.  This is
characteristic of this type of error.  (UTF-8 encodes ASCII in just one
byte, but everything else takes more than one byte.)

Are you sure the locale is set properly for the terminal program?  That
is, the shell in the terminal thinks the locale is en_US.UTF-8 , but
what does the terminal think?  That needs to be set before the xsession
runs.

Try starting a terminal program from within another terminal; that will
then inherit the right locale.

Peace,
	Dylan
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
Url : http://lists.bostoncoop.net/pipermail/linux-disciples/attachments/20060426/79515d4f/attachment.pgp