I use xterm-256color on my Mac in my default bash shell. I appear to be using plain xterm on shell.sonic.net, which is also set to default to bash. Some man pages have lots of question marks in them. Is there a better $TERM to declare on shell.sonic.net?
What's a good terminal to declare on my shell account?
General discussions and other topics.
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Try VT100?
Dane Jasper
Sonic
Sonic
Thanks. That still gets me the question marks. It looks like they're mostly, if not all, supposed to be invisibles.
I use Xterm with no problem. Sometimes ANSI on some systems or VT100 on others.
But it sounds like it might be a font problem. Do you have a specific font set? Try another. And personally I like one that can resize to the screen if I change the size of my window
But it sounds like it might be a font problem. Do you have a specific font set? Try another. And personally I like one that can resize to the screen if I change the size of my window
It's possible that the strange characters are caused by the LANG or LC_ALL environment variables. Assuming that you're using the default shell (bash?) you may be able to get rid of the strange characters with:
echo $LANG
set LANG=C
export LANG
echo $LANG
set LANG=C
export LANG
LANG=C solved it. Thank you!
LANG=C caused some unrelated problems. A better solution seems to be to include
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=C
in my .bash_profile
Thanks again.
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=C
in my .bash_profile
Thanks again.
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