On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 03:47:36PM -0800, Derek Kulinski wrote: > Hello, > > After installing FreeBSD 8.0 I noticed that some characters aren't > displayed correctly (it worked fine for 7.2). > > Mainly the dash character is most noticeable (though it's possible > it's more of them). > > Example: > env LANG=C man sh > env LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 man sh > env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man sh > > The first command shows everything fine, the later two seem to show > some unprintable character in place of every dash (i.e. in the second > paragraph word "built-in", or the dashes that break up the words at > the end of the line) >
I've been playing around with locales myself the past days. My analysis: # env LANG=C locale charmap US-ASCII # env LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 locale charmap UTF-8 # env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 locale charmap UTF-8 So the first one prints US-ASCII to your terminal and the latter two prints UTF-8 characters. My guess is that your terminal is set to US-ASCII and not UTF-8 and will thus not understand UTF-8 encoded characters. I'm using konsole where this setting can be found in "View" -> "Character Encoding" Hope this helps /Troels Kofoed Jacobsen > -- > Best regards, > Derek mailto:tak...@takeda.tk > > Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy disk? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
