Am 15.07.2007 14:23 schrieb Sven Joachim:
> I had the same problem: the localized package descriptions had question
> marks instead of German umlauts in a non-UTF-8 terminal. It seems I've
> found the culprit: there is a line with
>
> export MM_CHARSET=ISO-8859-1
>
> in my .bashrc, put in by language-env years ago. After unsetting
> MM_CHARSET aptitude displayed the national characters just fine.
Ouuch, no it didn't. I really should have made sure that I had started
aptitude in the right terminal. :-(
I can just confirm Jiří's observations: the localized package
descriptions work fine in an UTF-8 terminal, but not in others.
Sorry for the noise,
Sven
