Suddenly I'm seeing strange characters in some documentation. It seems
like it's always the same string. I see no pattern for where they appear
other than they seem equally spaced. Does anyone recognize this? Anyone
know a fix? Here's an example:

.. if th^BM-BM-T^BM-@e tag is listed ...

Solaris 9, sparc, xterm, CDE.

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check whether ur TERM & TERMINFO environment variables have valid
values.
TERM appropriate terminal
TERMINFO it should point to terminfo database.
If TERMINFO is not set, system picks up default terminfo database
(probably /usr/lib/terminfo)


Henry Townsend wrote:

> Suddenly I'm seeing strange characters in some documentation. It seems
> like it's always the same string. I see no pattern for where they appear
> other than they seem equally spaced. Does anyone recognize this? Anyone
> know a fix? Here's an example:
>
> 	... if th^BM-BM-T^BM-@e tag is listed ...
>
> Solaris 9, sparc, xterm, CDE.

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pankajtakawale wrote:
> check whether ur TERM & TERMINFO environment variables have valid
> values.
> TERM appropriate terminal
> TERMINFO it should point to terminfo database.
> If TERMINFO is not set, system picks up default terminfo database
> (probably /usr/lib/terminfo)

I thought I made that clear: TERM=xterm, TERMINFO is unset, and the
terminal is in fact an xterm. And please do not top-post.

HT

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Henry Townsend <henry.townsend@not.here> wrote:
> Suddenly I'm seeing strange characters in some documentation. It seems
> like it's always the same string. I see no pattern for where they appear
> other than they seem equally spaced. Does anyone recognize this? Anyone
> know a fix? Here's an example:

> 	... if th^BM-BM-T^BM-@e tag is listed ...

Perhaps it's related to your locale setting (or from a file generated under
one of Sun's broken CJK locales).

> Solaris 9, sparc, xterm, CDE.

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