Getting strange character output in PuTTY on one Ubuntu machine

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 07:02:27PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 28/07/2021 12:11, Bo Berglund wrote:
> > So the thousands separator seems to have been set to Unicode(?) char E2 80 AF
> > whatever that might be...
> 
> The Unicode charts say it's
> 
> U+202F	 	e2 80 af	NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
> 
> So the update script (or is it apt itself) is using an unbreakable space
> instead of a locale-dependent thousands separator.

In fact, U+202F *is* the locale-dependent thousands separator for
Swedish.

  https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=localedata/locales/sv_SE;h=f54c73226df89a4a4e14a79884c3d86c8e740238;hb=HEAD#l191

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]