[CLUE-Tech] fonts with Red Hat 8.0

[Mike Staver]

Very nice - that fixed the problem perfectly!  Thanks Kevin for the tip,
I'll implement it system wide ride away.  Stupid Red Hat trying to be
rebels or something :)

Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Staver <staver at fimble.com> writes:
> 
> Mike> I recently installed Red Hat 8.0 on a server without installing
> Mike> X.  I just want command line only, and I think that may have had
> Mike> something to do with my fonts being screwed up. Then again, I
> 
> Nope, they would be wrong in anything except konsole and
> gnome-terminal.
> 
> The problem is that 8.0 defaults to UTF8 support. Only gnome-terminal
> and konsole support UTF encoding, so everything else looks weird.
> 
> Do:
> 
> export LANG=en_US
> 
> and run your command again and it should work ok at display.
> To make that change effective system wide, edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n
> and change the LANG to en_US instead of en_US.UTF-8.
> 
> Mike> ...snip...
> 
> Mike> I obviously have a very hard time reading this.  I've been using
> Mike> the same ssh client on windows for years to work on my linux
> Mike> boxen.  The program I use is called Secure CRT.  So, my question
> Mike> is - is this font problem more likely related to a linux
> Mike> setting, or a setting with my ssh client?
> 
> it's the shell trying to send you utf8 characters and your ssh session
> not understanding them. ;(
> 
> The LANG setting should fix it. ;)
> 
> Mike>                                 -Mike Staver staver at fimble.com
> Mike> mstaver at globaltaxnetwork.com
> 
> kevin
> 
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