Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal

[Mick]

On Thursday 20 September 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote
>
> about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal':
> >On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 19 September 2007, felix@×××××××.com wrote about 'Re:
> >>
> >> [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal':
> >>>On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:05:16PM +0100, Mick wrote:
> >>>> When I launch mplayer from aterm I get this type of symbols on my
> >>>> terminal:
> >>>
> >>>I get them too.  I just ran it with stdout redirected to a temp
> >>>file which I attach here.
> >>
> >> The attached file looks "fine" to me.
> >> It is in a foreign language, though.
> >> I'm not sure how mplayer has decided you want that language.  Could you
> >> post the output of:
> >> env | grep -E '^L(C_|ANG)'
> >
> >I assume that you refer to felix's attachment, rather than my terminal
> > output.
>
> Yes.
>
> >$ env | grep -E '^L(C_|ANG)'
> >$
>
> Hrm, in that case applications are supposed to fall back to the "C" locale,
> IIRC.  However, it's possible that mplayer is trying to guess your
> language and getting it wrong.
>
> Try doing:
> LANG=en_US; export LANG
> before your mplayer command and see if that helps.

Thanks Boyd, no difference I'm afraid.
-- 
Regards,
Mick