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On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Simon Waters wrote:
On 07/06/11 20:51, Gordon Henderson wrote:On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Alex Mclennan wrote:hello to all,Look - inverted (as in colour, not upside down) question marks...That'll be the unknown character symbol.In the native console, they're diamonds. What did you type?The HTML (probably not what he typed) had 1 x 0A (new line) and 15 x A0 (non-breaking space in ISO-8859-1). So nothing that should be displayed. We've already established your character set mappings are behaving strangely, I do hope you aren't going to be perpetually surprised if things don't display correctly.
I'm surprised when things change. It used t work OK - under Debian Lenny. It was only when I installed Squeeze that things started to go odd )-:
I'm still intrigued by what error Alpine is giving you, which is probably the clue to fixing things. Also Alpine 2 from Debian repository doesn't seem to have any settings for locale, so I couldn't figure out what you were talking about previously that you were altering. Have you inherited some strange setting? Time maybe to "adduser" and see if a clean account has the same issues?
The Alpine2 I'm using now was installed from a .deb from their site (Not from the debian repo - which only has Alpine 1 for Lenny). It's version 2.00. (Debian Squeeze Alpine is 2.00 too)
I'm running an Xterm on a Squeeze box.. gordon @ yakko: locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 etc. ssh'd into a Lenny box: gordon @ unicorn: locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 etc.and running pine. In the pine settings (Main Menu -> Setup -> Config) there are these lines:
Display Character Set = iso-8859-1 Keyboard Character Set = iso-8859-1 Posting Character Set = iso-8859-1 Unknown Character Set = iso-8859-1(I've put it back to iso-8859-1 which stops it whinging) When I change these to en_GB.UTF-8 it whinges)
Oh... Hm. But your aduser has given me a clue... So I've just deleted those values. I've probably been using iso-8859-1 since about 1993 when I started using Pine - and guess what - when I deleted the "Display Character Set" value, it changed it to generic "UTF-8" and I can type £ signs again...
Euro blob too: €And when I go back and read Alex's email at the start of this thread, there are blanks in it now.
So there you go. Just needed a prod in the right direction :)Dragging myself into the 2nd decade of the new millenium, one bit at a time...
Cheers, Gordon
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