[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2743) Blank messages and bad packet strings

["kenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 00:28, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa via RT
wrote:
>
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Guest via RT wrote:
> 
> > Occasionally I get blank lines in my message window.
> 
> Are you a RedHat 8.0 user?
Yes

> Is your current charset UTF-8? If you are unsure check it by running the
> command 'locale'.
Yes.. they are all set to =en_CA.UTF-8

> If you are one of these unfortunate users the problem is that the freeciv
> server is not charset clean. You must start the freeciv server in a
> ISO-8859-1 locale as well as the client.
> 
> How to do it:
> 
> export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1
> ./civ &
> ./ser
> 
> Did this solve your problem?
Yes.. thanks!

Kenn