characters badly displayed

[Jeroen_D]

Hi,

I have some users who are using the "diameter-symbol" in their filenames. Apparently they find it quite handy for their cad-programme.

We recently upgraded to B2000's running HP-UX 10.20. I used the OS on the preinstalled systems (bought at end December 2000).

Now, when I do "ls" I see a 'pi-char', and when I do "ll | more" then I see M-R instead of the Pi-symbol.

The system locale LANG is C (all standard, I used the os and configured it for use in our network)

I am not really sure if it previously was shown ok or not.

I was wondering what is determining how the character is shown.

In a C-programme there is a call to a toupper()-function and then the diametersymbole is translated in something it shouldn't. This part worked previously. Anyone heard of this ? Some libraries/patches ?

TIA,
Jeroen.

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

What display are you using:
Xterminal, Xwindow or terminal?
You want to make sure if it's X, that:
1> the CDE session is correct lang/locale
2> The terminal (hpterm/xterm) used to display
the char is using a font that includes the character.
If it's an xterm, make sure you've got patches.

If it's an ascii terminal ... mmmm, make sure you're in hp emulation ??

Later,
Bill

[Volker Borowski]

Hello,
I would first check, if the shell you are running has "istrip" set, which would cause to clip off bit 8 for translation.

Do an stty in your session and check if you get
istrip or -istrip
If you have istrip, do a

stty -istrip

and verify you ls -l output.

Volker

[Jeroen_D]

Thanks for the info, I've checked for certain things but no improvement yet.
I've launched a software call at HP Brussels...I'll keep you guys informed.

Jeroen.