On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:42:24PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > [Sorry for the late post.] > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:05:41AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:55:06AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > That isn't one of the options. Do you mean en_US.UTF-8? > > Yes. > > Please be careful when pasting in the posts, it is hard to pick config > errors. > > > > Ummm what is the output of: > > > apt-cache policy {kbd,console-data,console-setup,console-tools} > > > > Interesting. My output is identical to yours except for console-setup > > Identical? Surely the http:// entry is different. > > > which shows 1.28 is installed. Having never used apt-cache policy I read > > the man page. From the entry I expected a file /etc/preferences. This > > does not exist so I was unsure how to change console-setup. > > > I had not yet run consolechars -d. I did so and ran the > > Why run consolechars -d? > > > apt-cache policy {kbd,console-data,console-setup,console-tools} > > command again. The output was unchanged but the characters used to > > indicate threading in mutt and the characters representing bullets in > > the output of man apt-cache were changed! > > > Amusing, what? > > It is amusing that you think it would. > > What is the output of: > grep -v ^# /etc/console-tools/config
BLANK_TIME=30 BLANK_DPMS=off POWERDOWN_TIME=30 APP_CHARSET_MAP=utf8 APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc1=utf8 APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc2=utf8 APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc3=utf8 APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc4=utf8 SCREEN_FONT=uni3-TerninusBold16 > > and: > locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= > > Also if you start mutt like > chr...@box:~$ LANG=C mutt > > You should see the symbols ok? Nope, still the same old funny symbols. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org