upgrade vs dist-upgrade

[Derek Broughton]

Gary W. Swearingen wrote:

> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> writes:
> 
>> I think it's the man page.  When I view it in an SSH terminal, all the
>> quotes look like:  â?~â? (I haven't the slightest confidence those will
>> display in anybody's mail or news program the way I see them - "a-acute,
>> question mark", twice), and when I view it in the console on vt1
>> it's "a-circumflex" and two unprintable characters (twice).  The quotes
>> display perfectly in the Konqueror browser.
> 
> 
>     zcat $(man -wa aptitude) | hd | less
> 
> shows ASCII only, as far as I looked.
> 
>     man aptitude | hd | less
> 
> shows a lot of UTF-looking stuff, so it seems the "culprit" is "man",
> as configured in kubuntu.  (Actually, it seems that kubuntu has
> decided to "go UTF", so the real culprits now are applications which
> don't support UTF.)

"man" is not a 'kubuntu' app, it's an 'ubuntu' app.  KDE gets involved in
the display of pages using the man: kio slave in Konqueror - but _that_
gets done correctly.
-- 
derek