strange corrupt text...

|cJ| · 05-25-2003, 05:26 AM

Hi i litrally spent the whole of yesterday sorting out a problem i had and then at 5am i did it which was great... so i go to close down pc and sleep i type

Code:

su

and instead of

Code:

password:

this comes up

Code:

Has|o:

everything is working as normal but im getting seemingly random corrupt words like this else where to

note: this problem is specific to the console inside X everything is 100% normal

what is going on here anyone have a clue?

dorian33 · 05-25-2003, 09:38 AM

"Has|o:" is polish equivalent of 'password' (but shown with improper character set).
To remove it check the LC_* and LANG environment variables. The defaults are LC_* =en_EN but yours are probably pl_PL.