Hi Frans, Thanks for the pointers!
So, I think we have to live with it for a while. At least it doesn't look like anything crucial for the release of Etch. Durk > On Wednesday 28 February 2007 00:37, Durk Strooisma wrote: >> Just bringing up this issue again (see the end of the mail for the >> original post). It would be nice if some people could check if they >> encounter the same issue with wrongly displayed console characters in >> Etch as well. If yes, I can post bug. You can simply check this by >> issuing "man sudoers"; quotes should be displayed as quotes, not >> characters like "รข". > > It is a known issue due to the switch from legacy encodings to UTF-8. > Not all applications in Debian work perfectly in/with UTF-8 yet, > although it may also have to do with the font that is used. > > If I display the sudoers manpage on a console, I get black squares > instead of the quotes. In KDE's konqueror the manpage is displayed > correctly. > > This is not an installer issue, but either a configuration issue or an > application issue. If you have concrete suggestions what the installer > could do to make certain applications work better, we could look at it > (especially when it concerns default console configuration), but in > principle the issues need to be solved by the maintainers of the > packages having problems with UTF-8. > > See also http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata where the > general issue is mentioned. > > Cheers, > FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
