begin  quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:05:19PM -0800:
> I am trying to port a program, namely "checkinstall", to my 64-bit
> Alpha.  Working remotely through ssh.
> 
> The OS is the port to Alpha of Fedora Core 5.  The compiler is
> gcc version 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)
> 
[snip]
> Can anyone think of a reason why gcc was made to do this?  Or have
> some idea of when it happened?  Or suggest something better in the way
> of a terminal emulator?

What's your locale?

I'd probably start by messing around with that; it's probably
trying to be Unicode on you, 'cuz Just Working isn't nearly so fun
as Forcing Everyone To Be Like I Want Them To.

-- 
Maybe you can use iconv?
Stewart Stremler

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