Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> writes: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 06:36:34PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 11/05/14 17:06, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> > But is there a system-wide solution, just in case it starts >> > happening in some other programme please? >> >> Try enabling utf (it's the "in" thing). > > IOW, what is the output of the 'locale' command? > If there is no UTF component in the string, e.g. en_NZ.UTF-8 then issue > 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' as root, and choose the UTF variant. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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