Debian dialog windows look ugly

trexos

Hello,

I just installed debian 7 on another box and the dialog windows look ugly:

I already tried apt-get install dialog but it's installed.

What could I do?

IceCream

Ain't that normal?

Infinity

What SSH client do you use? Have you set it to use UTF-8?

M66B

Maybe the settings of your terminal emulator are the problem.

trexos

@IceCream said:
Ain't that normal?

Normal it's without these qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq

@Infinity said:
What SSH client do you use? Have you set it to use UTF-8?

I use putty on Windows and this is the only box where it looks like that.

neroux

Is this local output or via a remote session?

msg7086

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

tick the en_US.UTF-8 or something else.UTF-8, and set it to default locale.

trexos

@msg7086 said:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

tick the en_US.UTF-8 or something else.UTF-8, and set it to default locale.

Tried this and even generated the en_US.UTF-8 locals but still looks the ugly way

msg7086

@trexos said:
Tried this and even generated the en_US.UTF-8 locals but still looks the ugly way

Did you try logout/login?

Microlinux

If you're accessing it remotely, likely wrong character set in your terminal program.

trexos

@msg7086 said:
Did you try logout/login?

Yeah even rebooted.

@Microlinux said:
If you're accessing it remotely, likely wrong character set in your terminal program.

It is, I use Putty but UTF-8 is selected.

Razza

I had this problem on one of my server, the way i fix by useing dpkg-reconfigure locales and setting the default locale to a UTF-8 one, in putty on the Window Translation tab set Received data assumed to be in which character set to UTF-8 and on Connection Data tab set Terminal-type string to putty

msg7086

locale

Have a look at the locale settings and see if everything points to en_GB.UTF-8.

If not, you can overwrite them manually.

trexos

@Razza said:
I had this problem on one of my server, the way i fix by useing dpkg-reconfigure locales and setting the default locale to a UTF-8 one, in putty on the Window Translation tab set Received data assumed to be in which character set to UTF-8 and on Connection Data tab set Terminal-type string to putty

didn't work for me

@msg7086 said:
locale

Have a look at the locale settings and see if everything points to en_GB.UTF-8.

If not, you can overwrite them manually.

LANG=en_US LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US" LC_NUMERIC="en_US" LC_TIME="en_US" LC_COLLATE="en_US" LC_MONETARY="en_US" LC_MESSAGES="en_US" LC_PAPER="en_US" LC_NAME="en_US" LC_ADDRESS="en_US" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" LC_ALL=

looks good

rds100

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
reset

trexos

@rds100 said:
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
reset

didn't change anything

msg7086

@trexos said:
looks good

No not good. It displays as en_US but should be en_US.UTF-8

As @rds100 suggested, try

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
reset

trexos

@msg7086 said:
reset

It shows now:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=

Now, but error isn't fixed

rds100

And what's $TERM set to?

trexos

@rds100 said:
And what's $TERM set to?

How can I check this?
I just checked apt-get install xterm and it looks like that package is not installed.

Razza

@trexos use echo $TERM

deptadapt

echo $TERM

trexos

it says xterm now, I did apt-get install xterm before.

rds100

I don't know what kind of terminal emulation putty uses? vt220? vt100? Anyone with windows and putty who can check?

trexos

@rds100 said:
I don't know what kind of terminal emulation putty uses? vt220? vt100? Anyone with windows and putty who can check?

terminal-type string it says: xterm

rds100

@trexos try to change it to vt220, then reconnect and see if it makes any difference?

trexos

@rds100 said:
trexos try to change it to vt220, then reconnect and see if it makes any difference?

Didn't change anything

msg7086

$ echo $TERM
linux

I'm not sure if this makes difference.

trexos

@msg7086 said:
$ echo $TERM
linux

I'm not sure if this makes difference.

I don't understand what I should do with this

trexos

nobody?

howardsl2

See:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28515/tui-interfaces-not-displaying-correctly

Also read comments below the first answer. By the way, if you use SecureCRT, in options, Terminal - Appearance: check Use Unicode line-drawing characters