On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote 
about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal':
>On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> On Wednesday 19 September 2007, felix@crowfix.com wrote about 'Re:
>> [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal':
>>>On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:05:16PM +0100, Mick wrote:
>>>> When I launch mplayer from aterm I get this type of symbols on my
>>>> terminal:
>>>
>>>I get them too.  I just ran it with stdout redirected to a temp
>>>file which I attach here.
>>
>> The attached file looks "fine" to me.
>> It is in a foreign language, though.
>> I'm not sure how mplayer has decided you want that language.  Could you
>> post the output of:
>> env | grep -E '^L(C_|ANG)'
>
>I assume that you refer to felix's attachment, rather than my terminal
> output.

Yes.

>$ env | grep -E '^L(C_|ANG)'
>$

Hrm, in that case applications are supposed to fall back to the "C" locale, 
IIRC.  However, it's possible that mplayer is trying to guess your 
language and getting it wrong.

Try doing:
LANG=en_US; export LANG
before your mplayer command and see if that helps.

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