[ILUG] Shell display issues, possibly locale.

[Lars Hecking]

Cathal A. Ferris writes:
> I have a LAMP server, originally installed as knoppix 3.6 but 
> apt-getted to debian sarge.
> 
> My problem is that a lot of system output on the command line is 
> unreadable. For example, as root, I enter 'adduser'.
> The next line reads: '??????? ??'? ???????????:'
> I also get this question-mark substitution in vim for its prompts, and in 
> things that use ncurses libraries. It's also present in tcsh, and screen.
 
 I have seen funny behaviour of ncurses based management utils on RHEL2/3
 as well, and the cure was to export LANG=C. YMMV.

> I've tried finding out where the relevant setting is changed, but having 
> some difficulty.
 
 Try /root/{.bash_profile,.bashrc}.