That's not the issue, I didn't explain that well. The problem is that afterwards everything Else has wrong characters, including my bash prompt.
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Quinlan Pfiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the bug report. The reason it displays weird characters is because > that is a gzipped text file. Ti un-gzip, type the following: > gunzip manual.txt.gz > > After this, you can read the file normally. > > ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Confirmed > > -- > gnome terminal displays weird characters after cat manual.txt.gz > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301461 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in "gnome-terminal" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: gnome-terminal > > @H [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/┤⎽⎼/⎽▒⎼␊/␍⎺␌/└┤├├$ > ^ should say "[EMAIL PROTECTED] $" > > I wanted to read the mutt manual, went to the right folder and typed 'cat > manual.txt.gz' > > I knew that it was gzip'd, but I want to see what woudl happen before I > unzipped it. > > And now gnome-terminal is displaying all text with wrong characters. > > Works fine after restarting gnome-terminal. > > Reproducible even. Odd. > > ProblemType: Bug > Architecture: i386 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 > ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal > Package: gnome-terminal 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1 > ProcEnviron: > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: gnome-terminal > Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686 > -- gnome terminal displays weird characters after cat manual.txt.gz https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301461 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
