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

[Dave Weis]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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?

Yes, it usually happens when there is colored printing to the console if 
I'm not on that one. I think it prints correct when I have the console 
active, though.

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