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-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301461 Title: gnome terminal displays weird characters after cat manual.txt.gz Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal @H ␋⎽4┌⎺▒┼@␋⎽4┌⎺▒┼-┌▒⎻├⎺⎻:/┤⎽⎼/⎽▒⎼␊/␍⎺␌/└┤├├$ ^ should say "is4loan@... $" I wanted to read the mutt manual, went to the right folder and typed 'cat manual.txt.gz' I knew that it was gzip'd, but I want to see what woudl happen before I unzipped it. And now gnome-terminal is displaying all text with wrong characters. Works fine after restarting gnome-terminal. Reproducible even. Odd. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal Package: gnome-terminal 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-terminal Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/301461/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
