Re: Display Corrupted over remote connections for RHEL5 and CentOS5

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Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> 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.
>
>   

Thanks Pavel.

I chose the second option and it worked wonderfully. For others using
iTerm on OSX, create a terminal profile that uses utf-8 encoding instead
of the default. Then create a bookmark for the EL5 system you want to
connect to using 'ssh $$USERNAME$$ server host name' as the command and
tell it to use the new terminal profile you created. this is how I did
it and it's working perfectly for me.