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 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> web site: http://www.gregn..net >>> gpg public key: http://www.gregn..net/pubkey.asc >>> skype: gregn1 >>> (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) >>> >>> -- >>> Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Well that's it then, colour me gone!
