Re: fixing the charset in a terminal
Sasha Gutfraind <escape1984@rocketmail.com> writes:
> Hello fellow users!
> I've been experiencing a weird and recuring problem
> in my debian system:
> When a program fails to read a data file for example,
> or somhow abnormally exits, the terminal starts to
> use some weird charset, and becomes unreadable. That,
> of course, affects only one terminal or xterm.
>
> My question is: How do I restore normal charset at
> (I guess stdout) ?
Others have already mentioned reset, but I have a simpler method. I
have a '^O' (control-O) at the beginning of my prompt ($PS1). This
automatically changes the charset back as soon as my prompt starts to
print.
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Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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