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