What has changed and/or how to control

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/21/2012 09:50 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:44:50 +0800
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>> What has changed in a default install for that to happen?  And what needs to be changed?  locale is the same on both systems.
> I don't know for sure, but I'd compare the preference settings
> of the terminal app you are using. There may be some
> obscure setting somewhere that says how it should render
> unicode (or maybe the default font is different and doesn't
> have any way to dig up unicode glyphs).

It is konsole.  It displays 八 just fine when typed in.  And displays just fine when you cat a file with Unicode characters.  So, I can't see how it would be related to konsole. 

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