On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 04:12, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 01:28, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: > > Hi, I just did a clean install of 9.1. > > > > 1: Language is Dutch/Netherlands. When I start manpages or ncurses based apps or > > type characters with umlauts etc. I get the wrong (non-ascii ?) characters. Its > > almost impossible to work with mc from the command line this way. > > > > 2: I cannot shutdown the box, when I do CTRL+ALT+DEL I get these characters on the > > console: ";2R". When I tap enter I get an error message from bash and the prompt > > appears. > > > > 3. I did a upgrade of 9.1 over 9.1 to see if this would fix things (this worked > > for me in the past with other issues I had with 9.0). The "upgrade" automatically > > installed hdparm and when I rebooted the boot process hung on hdparm for about 5 > > minutes. After login I got lots of errors about "command not found" and I > > discovered that many files in "/usr/bin" had disappeared. I fixed this by > > reinstalling a lot of RPMS manually. > > > > Can anyone help me to fix 1 & 2, so I can go on with building RPMS ? > > > I had similar problems here. My box does both English (me) and Korean > (wife). I had to remove the references to UTF-8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n > > So something that looked like > > LC_TELEPHONE=en_US-UTF-8 > > becomes > > LC_TELEPHONE=en_US > > and then continue on down the line. > > > Try this and see if it helps.. did for me. > > James
Yes the same happened here, so what is this UTF-8 stuff all about anyway? Cheers Mark
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