Re: strange chars in xterm
Francis Earl <francis.earl@gmail.com>:
>
> 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
>
> What version of Debian is this? Why aren't you using UTF8?
?!? What does utf8 have to do with this? This isn't multilingual
translation. It's English to English.
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