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List:       pine-info
Subject:    Re: [Pine-info] Possible Bug:  Terminal garbled
From:       Christopher Fisk <chrisf () mhonline ! net>
Date:       2005-07-26 12:54:59
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.63.0507260842390.21090 () borg ! mhonline ! net
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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jeff Franklin wrote:

>>  On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Michael Abbott wrote:
>
> The posting you cite from the redhat list is correct on two counts.  Pine 
> does not yet display in UTF-8, and your system is set up to only display in 
> UTF-8.  This can result in a garbled screen, and you can get around this by 
> changing the your system's locale.  IIRC I did this on my RH9 system by 
> making a change to /etc/sysconfig/i18n, changing the line:
>
> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
>
> to:
>
> LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-1"

I'm not running redhat but this does give me someplace to start.


> and resetting my X session.
>
> I think that's all it took, but a quick test of my Fedora Core 3 server 
> still seems require something more.
>
> One way to test that your system is set up to display with 8859-1 is to run 
> the command: echo -e '\340'
> From your konsole.  It should display an e with a grave accent.  You'll 
> notice that it will always display correctly on the "xterm" program.

When I run it in konsole it just gives \340, when I run from xterm it 
gives an A with a accent.

> Ideally, there would just be a menu option to switch display locales from 
> konsole, as is possible with OS X's terminal program.
>
> Linux desktops seem to have gone from not being able to recognize UTF-8 to 
> only being able to recognize UTF-8.  Maybe there is an obvious way to switch 
> the desktop (or konsole session) from UTF-8 to non-UTF-8, but I sure don't 
> see it.

This certainly gives me someplace to look, (And I believe solves the gnome 
users issues).  Thank you Jeff.


Christopher Fisk
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