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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?

Try VT100?

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

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

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.