Bug#422579: [Debconf-devel] Bug#422579: debconf displays garbage characters when locale is set to UTF-8

[Wei Chen]

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Joey Hess wrote:
> Wei Chen wrote:
>> Attached please find two screen snapshots FYI. Thank you.
>>
>> snapshot2.png is the one with garbage characters.
>> snapshot3.png is the clean one.
> 
> So, what have you configured differently between the two screenshots?
> 
Hi,

I have just done some more research and experiment. It turns out that if
the LC_CTYPE settings are not consistent (i.e. one is UTF-8 and the
other is not) for the terminal emulator and the program that runs in it
(i.e. gnome-terminal/konsole and dpkg-reconfigure in this case), there
might be problems.

It seems that that is not specific to this package. I just checked and
found something similar in aptitude and mc.

Therefore you may close this report if you also think so. Sorry for the
inconvenience caused.

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Cheers,

Wei Chen
http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/
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