Re: strange chars in xterm (etc)
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 4:33:17 michael wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 04:23 -0700, Francis Earl wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 May 2008 4:01:49 michael wrote:
> > > If I run
> > > xterm -e ssh xyz@hpc
> > > or
> > > gnome-terminal -x ssh mccssmb2@hpc
> > > from my Debian box "rat", then I get some strange chars in the manual
> > > pages on the 'hpc' machine, eg for `man bash` the pipe char "|" comes
> > > out as an "a" with a hat (^) above it (see attached screenshot) but I
> > > can't see why this is happening.
> > >
> > > If I, from a gnome-terminal just run
> > > ssh mccssmb2@hpc
> > > then all is fine. And if I login to hpc from any other box, or it seems
> > > login to any other box from "rat" then the chars appear as normal, as
> > > far as I can see from a quick comparison.
> > >
> > > I've no .Xresource nor .Xdefault in my home directory on "rat"
> > >
> > > Here's the actual process list for how `man bash` is handled on
> > > "hpc" (which is, err, interesting):
> > >
> > > 0 S mccssmb2 22223 22137 0 76 0 - 781 wait 11:54 pts/26
> > > 00:00:00 man bash
> > >
> > > 0 S mccssmb2 22226 22223 0 76 0 - 807 wait 11:54 pts/26
> > > 00:00:00 sh -c (cd /usr/share/man && (echo ".pl
> > > 1100i"; /usr/bin/gunzip -c '/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz';
> > > echo ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/gtbl | nroff --legacy
> > > ISO-8859-1 -man -rLL=77n -rLT=77n 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/less -iRs)
> > >
> > > 1 S mccssmb2 22227 22226 0 75 0 - 807 wait 11:54 pts/26
> > > 00:00:00 sh -c (cd /usr/share/man && (echo ".pl
> > > 1100i"; /usr/bin/gunzip -c '/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz';
> > > echo ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/gtbl | nroff --legacy
> > > ISO-8859-1 -man -rLL=77n -rLT=77n 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/less -iRs)
> > >
> > > 0 S mccssmb2 22232 22227 0 76 0 - 88 read_c 11:54 pts/26
> > > 00:00:00 /usr/bin/less -iRs
> > >
> > >
> > > Any clues anybody?
> > >
> > > Thanks, Michael
>
> What version of Debian is this? Why aren't you using UTF8?
>
> > Try enabled UTF8 and see if the characters are still strange.
>
> Etch & locale was
> michael@ratty:~$ locale
> LANG=en_GB
> LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_US:en_GB:en
> LC_CTYPE="en_GB"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_GB"
> LC_TIME="en_GB"
> LC_COLLATE="en_GB"
> LC_MONETARY="en_GB"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_GB"
> LC_PAPER="en_GB"
> LC_NAME="en_GB"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_GB"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB"
> LC_ALL=
>
> doing a
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
> and setting default to en_GB.UTF-8
> then re-logging in seems to have solved this.
>
> Not sure what initial problem is - doing 'man bash' on the local machine
> didn't have any problems!
Etch didn't use UTF-8 afaik, so that was probably the issue ;)
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