On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:55:29PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > In order to avoid problems with CUPS (yes Master, I shall comply) and get > consistency within my LAN, I'm finally giving up on the ISO-8859-1 locale > and switching my desktop host to use UTF-8. I've already corrected > /etc/locale.gen, to change the default locale to UTF-8: > > $ egrep -v '^(#|$)' /etc/locale.gen > en_US UTF-8 > en_US.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 > > then reran locale-gen. For the most part everything works fine. I ran > utf8migrationtool, which found no problems. 'locale' shows that everything > is 'en_US', and 'locale charmap' returns UTF-8. And CUPS and hplip will > now talk to each other again, hooray. But there is one minor problem: > > When I view some man pages, some characters, e.g. a bold-face pipe or > single-quote character, are displayed wrong in the terminal, usually as an > รข (a with circumflex). If I set LC_ALL=en_US.ISO-8859-1 first, then the > characters are displayed correctly. > > What's causing this problem, and how can I fix it? > > Thanks, > Andrew. >
You could try cleaning things up a bit with 'localepurge' -- Daryl Styrk Naples FL, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
