Re: Display Corrupted over remote connections for RHEL5 and CentOS5

["Pavel Tsekov" <ptsekov gmx net>]

Hello,

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Datum: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:08:02 -0500
Von: dead
An: mc gnome org
Betreff: Display Corrupted over remote connections for RHEL5 and CentOS5

> When running mc from console attached to an RHEL5 or CentOS5 system, it
> displays fine, but when running mc over a remote/ssh connection, the
> display is badly corrupted and becomes even more corrupted if you try to
> navigate. I've already tried changing my $TERM environment variable to
> various other settings - linux, xterm, vt100, etc, - but to no avail.
> They all seem to have the same display issues. Any light you could shed
> on the situation would be most appreciated. Google has not been kind! =)
>
> I usually connect via openssh over the most current iTerm on OSX
> 10.4.10. However, I've tested with other terminal programs - putty on
> winxp, securecrt on winxp, regular terminal in osx, etc - and they all
> are plagued with the same corruption of the display.

When you ssh to the remote machine type the following command:

export LANG=C

or configure your terminal emulator to interpret UTF-8 input.

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