[SATLUG] Weird characters in the linux consoles and lines not drawn correctly

[Chris Lemire]

Now my caps lock works in the console, and Midnight Commander displays correctly. Thanks for the link. What this guy said was correct:

"Make sure LANG matches your terminal's character set (utf-8 or 
 iso-8859-1), or use the command "mc -a".  (I just checked and mc ignores  
 "-a" if you have a UTF-8 locale). "

mc -a did not help any.

Here are the commands I ran to fix the problem.


cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | grep "en" | sudo tee /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
sudo update-locale en_US.ISO-8859-1
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup <- this one asked me many questions

Doing this showed that my LANG variable was set incorrectly.
echo $LANG
showed en_US.UTF-8

To fix that, I did.

export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1

After this, mc was displaying correctly. To make the changes permanent, I did this.

echo "export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1" >> .bashrc

Here's my beautiful Midnight Commander now.
 
 http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/2964/hpim1018qd1.jpg

Travis Runty <trunty at gmail.com> wrote: Chris:

Perhaps the below thread can assist you?  Let us know how it goes.

http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=7957131

-Travis Runty

On 6/6/07, Chris Lemire  wrote:
>
> Hello. I need some help. When I launch midnight commander from a linux
> console such as tty5, it displays strange characters that it should not be
> displaying and does not display the lines correctly. How can it be fixed? I
> have tried changing the locale from en_US.UTF-8 to en_US.ISO-8859-1, but
> that did not make a difference.
>
> http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/9026/hpim1001bh8.jpg
>
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