[K12OSN] Re: Sorry - question about squares instead of text again

[Paul Pianta]

joseph.bishay at utoronto.ca wrote:

>Hi Paul.
>
>I'm running k12ltsp which is based on RH9 and was stable as of last
>september, so I'm not sure if the issue is a new one/Fedora issue.  What
>version are you running? And I thought all versions of k12ltsp are based
>on the same core, so wouldn't this show up more often?
>  
>
the k12ltsp 3.x series are based on rh9.
the k12ltsp 4.x series are based on fc1.

I am running Fedora-Core-1 and I am seeing these 'boxes' instead of 
text. I remember seeing it with RedHat 9 too. I believe it is something 
to do with the character encoding and UTF-8 seems to mess a lot of 
things up if the characters are not strictly 'standard' characters.

The only thing I have found that helped me a bit (with a mixed 
French/English environment) was editing the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file. In 
that file I removed all of the '.UTF-8' extensions and that got things 
like accents over characters working again. (ie. change 
LANG="en_US.UTF-8" to LANG="en_US").

But unfortunately this does nothing to fix the 'squares for text' problem :(

p.s. - there will be fedora users on the fedora-list with the same 
problem - guaranteed :)

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