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Re: Unreadable characters in aterm and rxvt



On 9/22/07, Mike Polyakov <mike.polyakov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had this for a long time and now I finally decided to ask about it.
> I have a weird behavior when viewing man pages in aterm or rxvt. The
> title such as "Linux System Administrator's Manual", which usually
> appears in a man page, is missing. Some of the lines run off the page
> on the right and continue at the beginning of the next line (lines are
> not neatly formatted in fixed width column). Also there are characters
> which look like rectangles with dashed border. This happens in aterm
> and rxvt, but everything is fine in xterm. It looks like a font
> problem, but I don't know where to begin to start fixing it. Could
> somebody give me some suggestions?
>
> Thank you.

My first thought is encoding issues. What is the output of "locale"?
Possibly related - Do you use plain rxvt or urxvt aka rxvt-unicode?


Cheers,
Kelly



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