Extended ASCII Characters

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Wed Jun 5 17:19:53 EDT 2013


Yes, alsamixer is another perfect example of these other characters.
In this case, it makes it so bad I really cannot effectively use
alsamixer at all. Is there any way to control these?

On 4/16/13, Derek Roberts <bigd.vi.guy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Just confirming the weird Chas on my system. I notice them in alsamixer.
> On Apr 16, 2013 8:37 PM, "Gregory Nowak" <greg at gregn.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 03:15:30PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
>> > For the most part, mutt works pretty well around this except for when
>> > you see secondary messages in a thread.  A more obvious example would
>> > be in the Goto URL dialog and other forms in elinks and some of the
>> > dialog based scripts that put up box line characters.  What I'm seeing
>> > is 3 characters in the place a single ASCII line drawing character
>> > would have been.  Another strange thing I noticed over this weekend is
>> > my other Linux box at my permenant home puts a single null character
>> > in the place of these line drawing characters on those dialogues and
>> > that machine also is using the same locale.gen file with UTF8 and
>> > ISO8859-1 or whatever it is for standard US English.  I can't think of
>> > other differences that would cause the bahavior not to be the same
>> > unless something is set differently in elinks.  I didn't spend
>> > additional time on that box to see what else was going on; had speech
>> > dispatcher and other things to deal with at the time.
>> >
>>
>> Ok, I just brought up elinks here, and can confirm the null chars in
>> the go to url dialogue.
>>
>> Greg
>>
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