[Asterisk-Users] Re: Strange text on Asterisk console

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <20050228211504.M96211 at telecomabmex.com>,
Carlos Chavez <cursor at telecomabmex.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:58:48 +0000 (UTC), Tony Mountifield wrote
> > I've just set up a new box with FC1+updates and the latest Stable
> > Asterisk from CVS.
> > 
> > Asterisk is started with the default safe_asterisk script with a
> > console on TTY9.
> > 
> > The coloured text on this console is made up of weird characters
> > instead of normal. Please see http://www.softins.co.uk/dsc00018.jpg
> > for an example.
> > 
> > If I do "asterisk -rvvvvv" on a normal login, either via the console
> > or an xterm, the text appears correctly.
> > 
> For some reason it appears that the program is using Cyrilic characters.
> You should see if the init.d script you are using to start Asterisk is
> changing the default font set from ISO-8859-1 to -5 or something else.
> Maybe when you installed Fedora you checked that you wanted support for
> Russian.

No, when I installed the OS, I selected only English(Great Britain).
Only some of the characters appear to be Cyrillic.

The point is, only the coloured text is affected: the normal text is OK.

Anyone actually seen this behaviour before?

Cheers
Tony
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