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From: Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:38:03
Message-Id: 20070920042735.GA5625@qrypto.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal by Miroslav Puda
1 On (19/09/07 22:45) Miroslav Puda wrote:
2 > On 13:13 Wed 19 Sep , felix@×××××××.com wrote:
3 > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:05:16PM +0100, Mick wrote:
4 > >
5 > > > When I launch mplayer from aterm I get this type of symbols on my terminal:
6 > >
7 > > I get them too, and have always chalked it up to some locale problem
8 > > not worth solving. I just ran it with stdout redirected to a temp
9 > > file which I attach here. FWIW, they show on the term as all sorts of
10 > > real characters butwith diacritical marks, plus a few line feeds and
11 > > some normal chars. If I look at the file with emacs or cat it, they
12 > > all show up as ordinary question marks.
13 > >
14 >
15 > Characters of your output appears like characters from rusian alphabet
16 > (azbuka) on my terminal. It seem like regular russian words.
17 > --
18 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
19 >
20 Hi,
21
22 These are bulgarian cyrillic symbols, can read them (messages,info etc.)
23 Check the LANG var in make.conf, LINGUAS too.
24 Please post the output of: 'locale -a' as a user plus 'env | grep LANG'.
25 HTH. Rumen
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal felix@×××××××.com