Change in ASCII graphics

Laurenz Albe

AHA! Sort of.

BTW, before I originally consulted this list, I had performed a visual inspection of the 'set' output and the profiles, looking for anything that may have made sense. I did not find any such thing.

However, by copying the set output to good and bad files, and then performing a diff between them, I was eventually able to locate an environment variable, LCCTYPE that was causing this.

It was set: LCCTYPE=enUS.UTF-8 By unsetting it, or setting it to just enUS, I created a workaround to fix the problem. I have inserted this at the end ofetc-profile for now.

The reason that I said "sort of" above, is that I am not sure where this variable is being set to begin with. Nor do I have any idea what I am affecting by changing its value. It does not appear in the etc-profile. I tried an strace on bash, but cannot see what it setting it there. Maybe this is a default value? I can see that it is being used to lookup a file inusr-lib-locale-enUS.UTF-8-LCCTYPE (file not found).

Any additional suggestions on LCCTYPE ?

Thanks,

Jim