gnome terminal displays weird characters after cat manual.txt.gz

[SethWoodworth]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

@H
 ␋⎽4┌⎺▒┼@␋⎽4┌⎺▒┼-┌▒⎻├⎺⎻:/┤⎽⎼/⎽␤▒⎼␊/␍⎺␌/└┤├├$
^ should say "is4loan@... $"

I wanted to read the mutt manual, went to the right folder and typed 'cat manual.txt.gz'

I knew that it was gzip'd, but I want to see what woudl happen before I unzipped it.

And now gnome-terminal is displaying all text with wrong characters.

Works fine after restarting gnome-terminal.

Reproducible even. Odd.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Jordan Bain (jbain-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for the bug report. The reason it displays weird characters is because that is a gzipped text file. Ti un-gzip, type the following:
gunzip manual.txt.gz

After this, you can read the file normally.

[Jordan Bain (jbain-deactivatedaccount)]

Sorry, I didn't read your report thouroghly. Ignore my post. >_>

[SethWoodworth (seth-woodworth)]

That's not the issue, I didn't explain that well.

The problem is that afterwards everything Else has wrong characters,
including my bash prompt.

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Quinlan Pfiffer <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for the bug report. The reason it displays weird characters is because that is a gzipped text file. Ti un-gzip, type the following:
> gunzip manual.txt.gz
>
> After this, you can read the file normally.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
> --
> gnome terminal displays weird characters after cat manual.txt.gz
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301461
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "gnome-terminal" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
>
> @H ␋⎽4┌⎺▒┼@␋⎽4┌⎺▒┼-┌▒⎻├⎺⎻:/┤⎽⎼/⎽␤▒⎼␊/␍⎺␌/└┤├├$
> ^ should say "is4loan@... $"
>
> I wanted to read the mutt manual, went to the right folder and typed 'cat manual.txt.gz'
>
> I knew that it was gzip'd, but I want to see what woudl happen before I unzipped it.
>
> And now gnome-terminal is displaying all text with wrong characters.
>
> Works fine after restarting gnome-terminal.
>
> Reproducible even. Odd.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
> Package: gnome-terminal 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
>

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This is not a bug in gnome-terminal. The problem you experience is because the gzip'd file will contain some bit patterns which look like control characters, which alter the mode of the terminal emulator (as they are supposed to), so I'm closing this bug as invalid

[Mark Brannan (markbrannan)]

For the benefit of anyone else who stumbles upon this bug report when dealing with this common issue, please see: http://www.unixguide.net/linux/faq/06.14.shtml