Re: upgrade vs dist-upgrade

Derek Broughton <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I think it's the man page. When I view it in an SSH terminal, all the
quotes look like: â?~â? (I haven't the slightest confidence those will
display in anybody's mail or news program the way I see them - "a-acute,
question mark", twice), and when I view it in the console on vt1
it's "a-circumflex" and two unprintable characters (twice). The quotes
display perfectly in the Konqueror browser.


zcat $(man -wa aptitude) | hd | less

shows ASCII only, as far as I looked.

man aptitude | hd | less

shows a lot of UTF-looking stuff, so it seems the "culprit" is "man",
as configured in kubuntu. (Actually, it seems that kubuntu has
decided to "go UTF", so the real culprits now are applications which
don't support UTF.)


Many would prefer to keep email pure ASCII, but I'll have to look into
the use of UTF in email, since it's probably unavoidable.

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