"-" is not displayed correctly

[K.C. Chan]

All,
I've just configured RH8.0, is any one experiencing the same problem as I have, namely "-" is displayed as "ntsysv [????back] [????level ]". Does any one have any idea why? Thanks.

[Stuart Browne]

I'm picking you are talking about X Windows. What terminal program are you using? gnome-terminal? KDE's? uxterm?

In uxterm, they display perfectly fine. I don't have any problems with gnome-terminals either. I've not tried KDE's terminal program however.

In any case, I'm picking it's an issue with your fonts. Try using a different font set for your terminal window.

[K.C. Chan]

I am using xterm, this happening only in RH8, I have previous version of RH7.3 and all RH7.3 are displaying correctly when I used "ntsysv" command or man command. I don't think it's my xterm. Any idea? Thanks.

[Stuart Browne]

Ah. Right. Gotcha. Sorry, never use 'ntsysv', so forget what it is.

Umm, No. Don't have a fix for it yet, have the same problem myself. Mind you, I don't get the problem when using 'uxterm', only other emulation software.

Odd..

If I find something I'll let you know.

[Stuart Browne · Accepted solution]

Actually, a quick search shows this:

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/4530/2/

Simply put, the LANG environment variable is telling the system that it's using a Unicode language. Some programs don't support Unicode nicely, thus show dodgey crap like you are describing.

Quick fix is to change the LANG environment for your application to the stock-standard setting of 'C', i.e.

env LANG=c ntsysv

Hope this helps.