On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 04:23 -0700, Francis Earl wrote: > On Tuesday 20 May 2008 4:01:49 michael wrote: > > If I run > > xterm -e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > or > > gnome-terminal -x ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 > >
What version of Debian is this? Why aren't you using UTF8? > > Try enabled UTF8 and see if the characters are still strange. > Etch & locale was [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale LANG=en_GB LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_US:en_GB:en LC_CTYPE="en_GB" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB" LC_TIME="en_GB" LC_COLLATE="en_GB" LC_MONETARY="en_GB" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB" LC_PAPER="en_GB" LC_NAME="en_GB" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB" LC_ALL= doing a sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales and setting default to en_GB.UTF-8 then re-logging in seems to have solved this. Not sure what initial problem is - doing 'man bash' on the local machine didn't have any problems! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
