Disclaimer: I have no experience with Alpine or urxvt. In fact, I have
never hear of either and since I have not clue what they might be
google is not really helpful either.
With the above out of the way - your Copy & Paste action is most likely
routed through your Desktop environment. In KDE/Gnome there is setting
for Languages and Keyboards in their appropriate setting panels as well
as in the application defaults and your environment (login shell
LC_all/defaults......). I suspect that you are probably not a
mainstream guy, so before you say something like fvwm2, motif, CDE,
..... LXDE - these have language and keyboard settings too, and some
precedence for application and environment settings also - which could
mess up you Copy + Paste outcome.
Some email clients, office and editors have "Paste Special" or "Paste
as Text" function in menu - you could try those if that helps. Also if
your desktop environment runs on X you could also try to select the
text in terminal and try to paste it by middle click - if that is
wrong, perhaps look at your X settings (they are scattered all over the
place in /etc as well ac in your home and /tmp)
Good luck,
Tomas
On Thu, 2017-04-20 at 12:25 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Paul Mullen wrote:
>
> > Just to review... You run `tree` in your terminal and it looks
> > normal.
>
> Paul,
>
> Yes, the urxvt supports unicode, and the file command tells me the
> character encoding is utf8.
>
> > Then you cut and paste into another terminal window and end up with
> > a lot
> > of control sequence gibberish. When you sent the above-quoted
> > message, did
> > it appear to be koi8-r-encoded?
>
> If I tell tree to use utf8 or us-ascii I get the control sequence
> gibberish. When I paste (or insert) the tree output (without
> specifying a
> character code) into a composing alpine message something changes the
> character encoding to koi8-r.
>
> The command to invoke alpine specifies urxvt but that's ignored
> and the
> alpine window frame shows it's an xterm. Could this change character
> encoding of the enclosed text only with line drawing characters
> included?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
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