[vox-tech] Funny characters in aterm on kubuntu

[Jay Strauss]

> Aterm may not support Unicode. xterm does.
>
> > export LANG=en.ISO-8859-1 in my aterm I run man, and things display
> > correctly but I get an error
> >
> > man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> > Reformatting bash(1), please wait...
>
> This can be reconfigured by running dpkg-reconfigure locales and
> selecting the appropriate locales to generate.
>
> --Ken

Thanks Ken,

As an English speaker & reader, what do I lose by not having unicode support?

Thanks
Jay