Extended ASCII Characters

[Kirk Reiser]

I believe that if you set your LANG environment variable to 'c' it
will only display ascii characters. This will obviously play hell with
anything that requires utf-8.

On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Steve Holmes wrote:

> 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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