strange xterm behavior across platforms

[Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>]

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

osd/OSD.cc: In member function _:

(where _ is an 'a' with a hat/carrot over it) instead of

osd/OSD.cc: In member function 'void 
OSD::prepare_op_transaction(ObjectStore::Transaction&, MOSDOp*, 
eversion_t&, objectrev_t, objectrev_t, PG*)':

Similarly, things that should be in quotes on a man page (e.g. the second 
paragraph from 'man chmod') also appear as an a-hat.

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?

sage