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>   1. Re: vi on remote machine (JF Mezei)
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> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:50:20 -0400
> From: JF Mezei <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Re: vi on remote machine
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> If the problem occurs only on certain screen drawing activities, one
> possibility is that the remote system thinks your are 8-bit-controls
> enabled but the terminal emulator (xterm) doesn't, si it receives from
> remote host escape sequences that it doesn't process and hence gibberish
> on screen.
> 
> vi may be using 8 bit controls only for certain operations.
> 
> ( ctrl-left mouse gets you xterm menu where 8bit controls can ce
> enabled/disabled.
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:45:11 -0400
> From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
> To: David L Chopp <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: vi on remote machine
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> David L Chopp <[email protected]> writes:
>> I do have TERM=xterm on the remote machine.  What do you use instead?  I 
>> think the character encoding is part of it, setting LANG=C solves the 
>> problem for example.
> 
> In that case it's definitely a locale issue.  What do you have for
> LANG and/or LC_xxx on the Mac side?  (The output of "locale" in a local
> shell under xterm would answer this; or try "env | grep ^L".)
> Same question on the remote side?
> 
> Also, I notice that xquartz's xterm seems to set an XTERM_LOCALE
> environment variable, would be worth checking that that looks sane.
> 
>                       regards, tom lane
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