[Asterisk-Users] Strange text on Asterisk console

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 08:58:48PM +0000, 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.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this and how to fix it?

Yup. Your console translation is not set up well. Happened to me on
Mandrake and on Debian as well.

Try editing something in vim with syntax hilighting, you should get
basically the same symptoms. Try e.g: 

  vim +:h

(press ZZ twice to exit).

Does fedora have consoletools or kdb? If consoletools then the right
parameter to consolechars -m may be useful. unicode_start may also be
useful. I'm not so fluent with Fedora's setup but what is the output of
the following:

  locale
  cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n

Anyway, if the test with vim shows the same issues than this is an OS
problem, and you better ask on Fedora mailing lists and such.

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