Terminal messed up.

[Martin Pitt]

Hi George!

On 2004-09-28 22:45 -0700, George Farris wrote:
> Well for some reason my terminal is all messed up and the ~ key on the
> keyboard doesn't work anymore.  Rebooting into Fedora solves it:-(
> Here is a pic: http://owl.cc.mala.bc.ca/~george/term.jpg
> 
> Mc displays fine on the local machine but when I ssh into another
> machine it looks like the above.
> 
> Did we have a bad package in one of the upgrades?

I think this is an encoding problem. One of the machines is probably
using Unicode (UTF-8), whereas the other doesn't. Since Warty comes
with non-Unicode by default, you should probably switch to unicode on
Warty as well. For me this works perfectly. Just do the command

  sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

in a terminal, choose a locale ending in .UTF-8 and select it as a
default. After the next reboot, your system uses unicode.

Please note that Ubuntu's mc does not play very well with Unicode;
IIRC Fedora has some patches which improve that. But it should
definitively look better than your screenshot (I'm using mc myself and
I see fewer glitches).

Martin
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