On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 09:48:17PM +0000, David L Chopp wrote: > Hi, > > I’ve run into an annoyance when using ssh to access a ubuntu system. When > using vi or vim, the screen doesn’t refresh properly when paging > forward/backward using ctrl-f/ctrl-b. What happens is I get a union of > non-space characters between the old page and the new page. So if a > character is a space on the first page and in that location a non-space > character is on the second page, then the non-space character is written. If > the second page has a space, then it doesn’t replace whatever was on the > screen from the first page. On the other hand, if I scroll one line at a > time, it works correctly (just annoying if I’m trying to go through a large > file). Any ideas how to fix this? I’m using XQuartz 2.7.11. Odd thing is, > it only does it on my macs with 10.13, my laptop that still has 10.12 does > not have this problem.
offhand, it looks like an encoding problem: Ubuntu's setup for UTF-8 encoding and the default configuration for xterm is ISO-8859-1. You should be able to use the "uxterm" script (which sets the encoding). -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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