On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 04:57, Mark wrote: > 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
My understanding is limited but I believe it is a standard for displaying non "Roman English" characters. James
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
