On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:33:12PM -0800, Sage Weil wrote: > Hi, > > I'm seeing strange terminal behavior in xterm with output from g++ or even > man pages on my amd64 etch installation. Things that are normally quoted > are instead surrounded by odd characters that goof up the terminal output. > For example, a g++ error looks like > > The strange part is that if I'm using an xterm run off the amd64 box, it > looks fine, but if xterm is running from a regular 32bit debian box (or > even cygwin) it's garbled. Also, if I view it on the console, it's > surrounded by the little square (ASCII 254) instead of quotes. > > Is this something with terminfo in etch, or with the amd64 port? >
The problem is that Etch amd64 uses UTF-8 (multi-byte per character) vs regular one byte per character. You need an xterm that handles utf-i. E.g. rxvt doesn't but rxvt-unicode does. Try it or xfce4-terminal. In general this is a problem for me sshing from my 486 sarge box and running curses stuff (like mutt, mc, or aptitude) where the line-drawing characters are mangled unless I issue LANG=C. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
