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

[Mick]

On Thursday 20 September 2007, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> On (19/09/07 22:45) Miroslav Puda wrote:
> > On 13:13 Wed 19 Sep     , felix@×××××××.com wrote:
> > > 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, and have always chalked it up to some locale problem
> > > not worth solving.  I just ran it with stdout redirected to a temp
> > > file which I attach here.  FWIW, they show on the term as all sorts of
> > > real characters butwith diacritical marks, plus a few line feeds and
> > > some normal chars.  If I look at the file with emacs or cat it, they
> > > all show up as ordinary question marks.
> >
> > Characters of your output appears like characters from rusian alphabet
> > (azbuka) on my terminal. It seem like regular russian words.
> > --
> > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
>
> Hi,
>
> These are bulgarian cyrillic symbols, can read them (messages,info etc.)
> Check the LANG var in make.conf, LINGUAS too.
> Please post the output of: 'locale -a' as a user plus 'env | grep LANG'.
> HTH. Rumen

This is it:

$ locale -a
C
POSIX
el_GR
el_GR.utf8
en_GB
en_GB.utf8
en_US
en_US.utf8

(of course I don't have the cyrillic symbols/languages in my player output).
-- 
Regards,
Mick