Hi

On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 at 14:48, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This has come up before, I just can't seem to find the right docs/post:
>
> Running Sage in terminal, and then, say
>
> sage: Permutation?
>
> comes up with strings like
>
> ESC[0;31mFile:ESC[0m
>  
> /home/scratch2/dimpase/sage/sage/src/sage/groups/perm_gps/permgroup_element.pyx
> ESC[0;31mType:ESC[0m           InheritComparisonMetaclass
>
> and
>
> sage: Permutation??
>
> is totally unreadable:
>
> ESC[0;31mInit signature:ESC[0m
> ESC[0mPermutationESC[0mESC[0;34m(ESC[0mESC[0mselfESC[0mESC[0;34m,ESC[0m
> ESC[0mparentESC[0mESC[0;34m,ESC[0m ESC[0mlESC[0mESC[0;34m,ESC[0m
> ESC[0mcheck_inputESC[0mESC[0;34m=ESC[0mESC[0mTrueESC[0mESC[0;34m)ESC[0mESC[0;34mESC[0mESC[0m
> ESC[0;31mSource:ESC[0m
> ESC[0;32mclassESC[0m
> ESC[0mPermutationESC[0mESC[0;34m(ESC[0mESC[0mCombinatorialElementESC[0mESC[0;34m)ESC[0mESC[0;34m:ESC[0mESC[0;34mESC[0m
> ESC[0;34mESC[0m    ESC[0;34mr"""ESC[0m
> ESC[0;34m    A permutation.ESC[0m
> ESC[0;34mESC[0m
> ESC[0;34m    Converts ``l`` to a permutation on `\{1, 2, \ldots,
> n\}`.ESC[0m
> ESC[0;34mESC[0m
>
> etc
>
> What the hell is going on? I have
>
> $ locale
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
>
> $ echo $TERM
> xterm-256color
>
>
> This is not running via ssh/screen, this should be just fine, no?
>


Still, just a guess, try TERM=screen-256color, also your equivalent of
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Regards,.
Jan



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