On 20 August 2013 14:50, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Aug 20, 2013 6:45 AM, "David Loeffler" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Are you maybe using Sage inside a screen session? Apparently screen
>> doesn't play nicely with UTF-8 characters, unless you invoke it with
>> "screen -U".
>
> If so, time to switch to tmux!!!

Never heard of it -- some kind of screen only better?

John

>
>>
>> David
>>
>> On 20 August 2013 14:24, Volker Braun <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > You need a UTF-8 capable terminal (independently of Sage it would be a
>> > good
>> > time to switch). See also screenshots at:
>> >
>> > http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/vbraun/UTF8/
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 2:14:41 PM UTC+1, John Cremona wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 5.12 introduced a new encoding for the Sage header.  I remember some
>> >> discussion on this list of whether it was a good idea or not.  I
>> >> probably cannot cut and paste here to show you how weird this looks
>> >> for me, but it's a mess of chinese-looking characters:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────â”
>> >> │ Sage Version 5.12.beta1, Release Date: 2013-08-16
>> >> │
>> >> │ Type "notebook()" for the browser-based notebook interface.
>> >> │
>> >> │ Type "help()" for help.
>> >> │
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
>> >> â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â”
>> >> â”
>> >> â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â”
>> >> â”
>> >> ┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┓
>> >> ┃ Warning: this is a prerelease version, and it may be unstable.
>> >> ┃
>> >> â”—â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â”
>> >> â”
>> >> â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â”
>> >> â”
>> >> â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â”›
>> >> sage:
>> >>
>> >> (they are not all a-circumflex as tey appear in my gmail window).
>> >>
>> >> I tried switching my locale setting but it made no difference.  What
>> >> magic do I need to use to make this look reasonable?  And then we
>> >> should add instructions to the FAQ since we'll surely get many more
>> >> similar comments?  (I confess that I did not check the FAQ before
>> >> posting this....)
>> >>
>> >> John
>> >
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