On 4/6/07, Steven Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Apr 4, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > > > > > > > > I don't know what impact, if any, the method I'm starting fish has, but > I'll explaining it now. Because of the setup I'm using ( yp/nis ) my > shell is set to tcsh, so my > $HOME/.login ( for tcsh ) contains: > > > if ( `/bin/uname` == Linux ) then > # start fish > exec "$HOME/local/bin/fish" -l > else > #define path > # path set, omitted for email message > endif > > > I can't set the shell to bash because we have a mixed of Linux, Solaris > and IRIX environment. > > > Though if necessary, I can set the shell to sh. > > > > > Hi, > > > I'm still here. I was out of work Thursday, the April snow storm hit us > pretty hard. > > > I've updated how I start fish, now /bin/sh starts fish on linux. I rarely > using the others. The $HOME/.profile contains this: > > > if [ `/bin/uname` == "Linux" ]; then > # start fish > exec "$HOME/local/bin/fish" -l > else > exec /bin/tcsh > fi > > > Today ( Friday ) I haven't hard any crashes, so far. However on one of our > RHEL 4 machines when I start fish I get these messages: > > > fish: Wide character -65493 has no narrow representation > fish: Wide character -64641 has no narrow representation > fish: Wide character -65500 has no narrow representation > fish: Wide character -1 has no narrow representation > fish: Wide character -65493 has no narrow representation > > > and my prompt looks like ( you'll note the weird characters after blackstar ): > > > > > > > > However when I log into other machines ( RHEL 4, or other distributions ), I > get the normal looking fish prompt, nor do I get any Wide character messages. > Any idea what is causing these message.
This sounds very much like a character set issue. I seem to remember that RHEL ships with unicode as the deafault charset. Perhaps the terminal emulator fully support Unicode? What happens if you execute the command 'echo \u2026'? Also, try changing the defalut character set and see if that helps. > Oh, one more thing I forgot to mention in my original email: fish rocks! :) :-D > > Thanks, > > > > > =============================================== > | Steven Knight [EMAIL > PROTECTED] | > | UNH Research Computing Center 603-862-3042 | > =============================================== > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Fish-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users > > -- Axel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
