Re: strange chars in xterm

[Francis Earl <francis.earl@gmail.com>]

What version of Debian is this? Why aren't you using UTF8?

Try enabled UTF8 and see if the characters are still strange.

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