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Line-drawing characters not longer drawn in console after kernel upgrade - why

Hello,
I just upgraded in Ubuntu from 2.6.28-13 to 2.6.30 and now I get no line-drawing characters in applications like alsamixer; instead they are replaced by 127-bit chars like 'lqqk'.

As a coder, I'd really like to understand what happened - what changed (file in /etc?) affecting terminal capabilities, and what does the kernel have to do with it :scratch:.

regards, Ariel

PS: the distro is Jaunty and I used the debs at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/:

Code:

linux-headers-2.6.30-020630_2.6.30-020630_all.deb

linux-headers-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb

linux-image-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb

Might want to start here..

http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/...known_problems

Other Display Problems

* Line-drawing characters come out as x's and q's
* Line-drawing characters come out as Latin-1 characters
* Line-drawing characters do not appear

I think the issue is tied to the utf-8 locale..

Thanks farslayer, the problem fixed itself after a reboot. I bookmarked your link for future reference and education :)