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I think I found a problem, in ssh certain characters (probably extended ascii ones) get displayed badly through ssh. Look at the attachment to see what I mean.

Makes me think of those annoying spam emails that are just a bunch of giberish.

Is there a way to fix this? This is also probably the same issue that makes it so the "man" command displays garbage if I use it.

I'm assuming it's because I'm doing it over ssh. But I want to be able to do everything over ssh since once I need a dedicated server, I'll have to know how to configure all these things without going to the server.

So how can I fix the display? Thanks in advance.

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Red Squirrel wrote: I think I found a problem, in ssh certain characters (probably extended ascii ones) get displayed badly through ssh.  Look at the attachment to see what I mean.

Makes me think of those annoying spam emails that are just a bunch of giberish.

Is there a way to fix this?  This is also probably the same issue that makes it so the "man" command displays garbage if I use it. 

I'm assuming it's because I'm doing it over ssh.  But I want to be able to do everything over ssh since once I need a dedicated server, I'll have to know how to configure all these things without going to the server. 

So how can I fix the display? Thanks in advance.

easiest thing i can think of is to look for a unicode font to use for the display. don't know much about them kind of fonts, so play around with different ones to see if they work.

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Tried most of the non-truetype fonts and basically it does the same thing, but in that font. Even true type fonts will do the same but I rather not use a TTF for a terminal. I like when things allign properly.

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Red Squirrel wrote: Tried most of the non-truetype fonts and basically it does the same thing, but in that font.  Even true type fonts will do the same but I rather not use a TTF for a terminal.  I like when things allign properly.

yeah, i use courier or courier new for my fixed width fonts. i'm not sure, but what language or locale is the box your ssh'ing into? probably off by a mile on this one, but if the box your ssh'ing to is set to a different locale or using a different default language (whatever, i don't know), try googling for fonts for that language. or maybe look into your terminal type (vt100, etc...)... i don't know really what to tell you. it sounds like you don't have any unicode fonts to me.

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Not sure what the server uses, but in my client I'm configured for VT100 (default). Terminal is what I'm using too.

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