When using things like links, centericq, or ntsysv on my fedora core 2 box the fonts in ncurses based programs look fine, but on my centos4.2 box all the pipes and dashes end up looking like ?????????????????? Does anyone know how to fix this problem ?
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:27:37PM -0500, Robin Mordasiewicz enlightened us:> When using things like links, centericq, or ntsysv on my fedora core 2 box > the fonts in ncurses based programs look fine, but on my centos4.2 box all > the pipes and dashes end up looking like > > ?????????????????? > > Does anyone know how to fix this problem ?Yes, change your LANG from en_US.UTF-8 to en_US. This can be done permanently in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:> When using things like links, centericq, or ntsysv on my fedora core 2 box > the fonts in ncurses based programs look fine, but on my centos4.2 box all > the pipes and dashes end up looking like > > ?????????????????? > > Does anyone know how to fix this problem ?this is what ntsysv ends up looking like ????????????????????? Services ????????????????????? ? ? ? What services should be automatically started? ? ? ? ? [ ] NetworkManager # ? ? [*] acpid ? ? ? [*] anacron ? ? ? [*] apmd ? ? ? [*] asterisk ? ? ? [*] atd ? ? ? [ ] auditd ? ? ? [*] autofs ? ? ? ? ? ?????? ?????????? ? ? ? Ok ? ? Cancel ? ? ? ?????? ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:> When using things like links, centericq, or ntsysv on my fedora core > 2 box the fonts in ncurses based programs look fine, but on my > centos4.2 box all the pipes and dashes end up looking like > > ?????????????????? > > Does anyone know how to fix this problem ?Are you in an xterm (or other terminal emulator) or a regular console? -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> www.madboa.com