Broken display

[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 19:47 +0100, Administrator TOOTAI wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I face a strange behavior on a FC3. I'm connecting via ssh and then run 
> screen, locale give me:
> 
> LANG=en_US.iso885915
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.iso885915"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.iso885915"
> LC_TIME="en_US.iso885915"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.iso885915"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.iso885915"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.iso885915"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.iso885915"
> LC_NAME="en_US.iso885915"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.iso885915"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.iso885915"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.iso885915"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.iso885915"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> Now if I run man, I get
> 
> RPM(8) R␊␍ H▒├ L␋┼┤│ RPM(8)
> 
> NAME
> └ - RPM P▒␌┐▒±␊ M▒┼▒±␊
> 
> SYNOPSIS
> QUERYING AND VERIFYING PACKAGES:
> └ π-─≠--─┤␊≤£ [␊┌␊␌├-├␋┼] [─┤␊≤-├␋┼]
> 
> └ π-V≠--┴␊␋°≤£ [␊┌␊␌├-├␋┼] [┴␊␋°≤-├␋┼]
> 
> └ --␋└├ PUBKEY ...
> 
> └ π-K≠--␌␤␊␌┐␋±£ [--┼␋±┼▒├┤␊] [--┼␍␋±␊├]
> PACKAGE FILE ...
> 
> [and so on]
> 
> Not really readable! Running mc under root give me the same behavior, 
> only CTRL/L give me back a decent display. Running under a normal user, 
> same behaviour. This is a ls in console:
> 
> [␍␤@└▒┼± ·]$ ┌
> ␉▒␌┐┤.␤ ␉␋┼ °␋┌␊.┌␋├ °␋┌␊.┌␋├.␊│␌┌┤␍␊␍ M▒␋┌ ␌
> [␍␤@└▒┼± ·]$
> 
> Any hint?

Bad locale setting.  Edit your /etc/sysconfig/i18n file and make sure
it contains:

	LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
	SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
	SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

Reboot and try it again.  There's lots of problems with the
en_US.iso885915 locale.

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- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
- VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
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