Hi Hugo, On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 03:54:38PM -0500, Hugo Jackson wrote: > I just installed etch.
Etch has not been released. you are using 'testing' which is the development stream to produce 'Etch'. To double check, see what /etc/apt/sources.lists show: either stable,testing,unstable,sid,etch, or sarge in the 'deb' lines. >i do most of my development ssh'd into my linux > box using the macintosh X11 xterm package. After installing etch and > setting up ssh for trusted forwarding etc, i note that the mac X11 > program no longer displays the single opening quotation mark > correctly. Instead it sends a " รข" which also succeeds in clobbering > the rest of the word up until the next space. Interestingly I do not > get this problem using the macintosh Terminal program (but of course > it's not X11) but I do get it with the terminal program iTerm. I > played around with choosing different character sets on iTerm and > found that Western-UTF8 properly displays the opening single > quotation, but adds an extra space following it, which leads to > formatting errors. This leads me to believe that there's been some > change to the way etch has configured something (and its what that > something is that i don't know) that causes problems for some xterm > implementations as sarge did not have this problem. Anyone have any > advice or is anyone able to point me in the right direction? Thanks. I'd say compare the output of 'locale' settings on both machines: locale #show current locale locale -a #show available locale cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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