dosn't support utf-8, shows e.g. when runing apt-get update

[Chris Moore]

When apt-get gets in a mess, it tells you to use "apt-get -f install" to clean itself up.

This used to look OK until recently I think, but now it has some junk characters around it.

I used "od -c" to show the octal values of these junk characters:

0000000 Y o u m i g h t w a n t t
0000020 o r u n 342 200 230 a p t - g e t
0000040 - f i n s t a l l 342 200 231 t
0000060 o c o r r e c t t h e s e .
0000100 \n

See the attached screen shot for how it looks in a terminal.

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

I ran the command several times, and the corruption happened each time.

Then I used 'od -c' to show the characters in detail.

[OlivierP (unineurone)]

The octal strings you see correspond to U+2018 (LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, \342\200\230)
and U+2019 (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, \342\200\231)

It is possible that the font you are using in your terminal cannot translate it, or the terminal does not support Unicode (UTF-8).

Could you check ?

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

I tried using the same font in "xterm" and "mrxvt".

> "xterm" displays the UTF-8 quotes fine.
> "mrxvt" displays them as shown in the screenshot I attached.

So I guess this is a problem with "mrxvt". (Unless "using funny UTF
characters" is a bug? No, didn't think so).

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Well, if mrxvt dosn't support utf-8 this will not be the only applicaiton that looks "ugly". I suppose "mc", "mutt", "aptitude" etc will look similar?

I think the bug should be reassigned to mrxvt.

Cheers,
 Michael

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

Quite possibly. I've not used any of those, but you're right. This isn't an apt bug.

[MikeM (mike65134)]

It seems that I have the same problem. I installed mrxvt, rxvt and xterm. My LANG-Setting in /etc/environment is:
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
I can type äöü߀ in xterm, but not in mrxvt or rxvt.
There I get äöü߀
Is this the same bug?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Yes, it seems to be the same problem (the terminal dosn't support utf-8).

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I reject the ubuntu task, one open bug against the terminal is enough

[Florent (florent.x)]

I confirm the bug. It is annoying.
I revert to xfce4-terminal for my low memory pc.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

(Workaround, albeit suboptimal, available.)