Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. uxterm's the shell script that sets up xterm to run in UTF-8 mode. Referring to "an xterm" is like referring to "a Douglas Tutty"... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]